Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we're really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.
A Boogie wit da Hoodien
I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.
Adam Granduciel
I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
Alex Chilton
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
When I am composing in a studio, I cannot gauge what the audience feels. Sometimes, good songs don't get the recognition because the films fail. But when you are performing live, the reaction is immediate.
Amit Trivedi
If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
Amy Jackson
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
Amy Lee
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.
Andy Grammer
It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.
Angus Young
I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.
Anne Murray
I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.
Art Alexakis
I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.
Astrid S
Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.
Austin Carlile
A good song never gets old.
Bad Bunny
Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.
Bart Millard
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.
Ben Gibbard
I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.
Benmont Tench
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.
I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.
I'm always better when I'm not doing well, that's when I write good songs.
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.
If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You Can Go Your Own Way' in your ear all day, and that's what makes a good song.
I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.
I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.
'I Want It That Way' is a feelgood song. It's happy, easy to sing along with, and everybody knows it.
You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.
In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.
A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
What's really cool about 'This is Me' is that our friends loved the song. Older punk rock fans don't know 'The Greatest Showman,' haven't seen the movie. And they hear that song and they're like, 'This just sounds like an awesome New Found Glory song. This is a really good song.'
I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
The energy between all the girls - we were hysterical together. That energy could go really bad and it could be so hateful and horrible, and then it could go really good and we'd write really good songs.
We all came to the conclusion that we have an undeniable chemistry musically, that we might not ever find again. The mix of friction and camaraderie channels good songs, performances and laughs.
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.
There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.
Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.
A short story collection can be as exciting as a novel. It is a real complete experience, like when you listen to a real good recording, a Beatles record, and there are so many good songs.
People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.
