#song

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creative #crop #hard #harvest #how

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. ↗

— Manfred Mann

#bad performance #being #even #get #good

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know. ↗

— Teena Marie

#around #blessing #ever #gift #given

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. ↗

— Steve Martin

#bluegrass #get #hard #i #i think

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#fairly #i #indulge #less #myself

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine. ↗

— John Mayall

#i #i always #make #pick #players

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do. ↗

— Jewel

#day #fun #had #homeless #i

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it! ↗

— Martina McBride

#ever #fighting #had #honest #i

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#came #conductors #could #first #four

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#american #answer #any #anything #culture