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A great song is a great song.
'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.
I like good melodies and a great song.
The whole industry evolves around a great song.
A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.
Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.
'Rockaway Beach' is a great song, and so is 'Listen to My Heart.'
I'm spiritual, too, but 'Gitty Up' is a great song, know what I mean?
'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.
We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.
I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.
Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.
I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
I remember, when I heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace,' on first listen I just thought it was such a great song.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
You know what's a great song that will be stuck in your head if I say it? 'Single Ladies,' by Beyonce. Killer song.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.
There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.
I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.
It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.
Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something that gets you going.
To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!
I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.
It's always nice, no matter what style of music, as long as it's grooving and you feel that, I feel that's what makes... part of what makes a great song, for sure.
You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.
To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it to the record, then that's what is supposed to come, you know what I mean.
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.
I think it's exciting because it pushes you harder to write a great song. Even for established artists, it has to be really good now because people have so many other options.
Even though the hero of emo is Morrissey, the great song of emo is 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.' An emo soundtrack would introduce Joy Division's music to a whole new generation.
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.
There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.