Kate Voegele Quotes

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

I know Ed Sheeran writes with a bunch of fantastic writers, but for me, it's quite difficult to be that honest with other people.

I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.