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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.


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My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
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Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.


Kesha
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
George Takei
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.


Robert Benchley
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
Karolina Kurkova
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Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
Don Cornelius
I think that the song 'Movin' On' can be a personal song. We've all been in relationships where we weren't necessarily happy.
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In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.
Preity Zinta
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara DioGuardi
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I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
James Howe
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There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
Norah Jones
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I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.


Sean Kingston
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I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.


Kid Cudi
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.


Imelda May
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.
Nick Cave
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
Randy Houser
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
Taylor Swift
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