Maren Morris Quotes

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

The first song I ever had recorded by another artist was a song called 'Surefire Feeling' by Jake Owen.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

I never liked making albums.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

I make a lot of money off featuring, doing songs with up-and-coming artists. I can charge someone $10,000 to $15,000 to do one song.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.