Beth Hart Quotes

If I write the song, I get to name it.

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'

I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'

I like to be on most of my songs. I think being on your songs makes it all the more special in a way. Especially for me, just knowing that I'm releasing something that I was really a part of and dug in the dirt with.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a lot of people, but it was basically childhood memory.

'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that.

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

The first song I ever wrote that I liked was called 'When You're Alone.'

I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.

It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

I think my music has connected with the audience because I always have a clear vision about my songs.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!

Ultimately, Cole Porter's music might say more about his life than any biography could. His songs, with their witty lyrics and debonair style, are an advertisement for his personality and his public persona.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.