Scooter Braun Quotes

I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

If you're thinking about making a hit song, and you think I want everybody in the world to love it, then you kind of make it up, and you do it.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.

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.

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.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

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

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

Forty-five million people hit that button for 'In These Streets.' When you find out you have that kind of popularity, you better use it. It's called responsibility.

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.