If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.
Steven Tyler

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
Fiona Apple

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
Charlie Watts

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
Edith Piaf

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!
Johnny Cash

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.
Chris LeDoux

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
Chris LeDoux

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
Geddy Lee

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
Geddy Lee

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
Geddy Lee

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
Geddy Lee

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
Geddy Lee

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
Geddy Lee

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
Waylon Jennings

I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
Van Morrison