Anne Murray Quotes

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

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

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I write the best songs I can.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.