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Im not interested in fad songs.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Fads
Not Interested
Song
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I'm not interested in fad songs.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Not Interested
Interested
Fad
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I'm actually introverted and shy.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Introverted
Shy
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Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Chorus
Crowds
Respond
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I grew up listening to English music.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Grew
Grew Up
Listening
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Honest always sells. Always has, always will.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Honest
Sells
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Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Alive
Kill Me
Whatsapp
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I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Corporate
Fame
Magic
Not Interested
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I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Hybrid
People
Wish
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I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Cells
Laptops
Phones
Terribly
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Cynicism
My Past
Past
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Credible
History Of Music
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I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Crosses
Guy
Ifs
Cross
Regular Guy
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I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Melody
Pops
Sucker
Melodies
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I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Fans
Gaga
Incredibles
World
World Place More
Lady
Lady Gaga
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I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Good Day
Theory
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The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Classic
Crafts
Relevant
Songwriting
Craft
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I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Bullshit
Night
Stories
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I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Corn
Dog
Selling
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I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Giving
Stories
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I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Making Money
Songwriting
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When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Broke
Debt
Eyeballs
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Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Looks
Mean
Needs
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I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Ends
Left
Middle
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When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Buckets
Giving
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I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Eight
Flood
Nine
Song
Years
Market
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The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Cool Things
Forever
Publish
Writing
Cool Thing
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Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Gaga
Hard Work
Harder
Sleep
Unbelievable
Lady
Lady Gaga
Sleeps
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When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
People
Realising
Successful
Successful People
Accident
Success Work People
Realise
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I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Test Of Time
Tests
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I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Cab
Different
Sides
Project
Opposed
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I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Morning
Cities
Dirt
Los Angeles
Wake Up
Window
Angeles
Los
Polluted
Wake
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Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Christian
Christian Music
Contemporary
Deeper
Song
Spiritual
Connect
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I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Chorus
Guitar
Hook
Thinking
Turns
Actual
Centered
Follows
Riff
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As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Stuff
Thinking
Trying
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I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
People
Writing
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With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Block
Excuse
Green
Iphone
Melody
Tea
Voice
Whole Foods
Drop
Extract
Foods
Save
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I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Records
Writing
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Hollywood
Monica
Pop Song
Santa
Santa Monica
Song
Sunset
Thinking
Car Your Me
Car Me Song
Drive
Demo
Writers
Talked
Test
True Test
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I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Chorus
Mainstream
Song
Thinking
Artists
Deliver
Indie
Separates
Success Is
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Any time you have a song that is directly connected to a very specific musical trend of the moment, you have immediately cut it off at the knees, doesn't matter if it goes to number one in the world, if you're too attached to a production style.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Cutting
Numbers
Song
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The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Play
Song
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So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Earth
Ideas
Trials
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Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Don't Care
Human Brain
Melody
Simple
Song
Thinking
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Architect
Bars
Blank
Eight
Paper
Song
Talking
Unique
Formula
Initial
Introduced
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The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.
Ryan Tedder / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Idols
Thinking
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