When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going... →
Conor Oberst
If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.
To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a... →
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror... →
Phil Ochs
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
Tom Odell
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
Will Oldham
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last... →
Everyone wants a love song you can dance to.
Rita Ora