Teena Marie Quotes

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

I write the best songs I can.

I feel like I was born to make music.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

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

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.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

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.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Music is what I do naturally.