Blake Shelton Quotes

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I really like Holly Williams. I've said that a bunch, but her song 'Drinkin',' I just love it.

Freddie Mercury said years later that he got the idea for 'We Will Rock You' from 'Bits and Pieces.' I never knew that.

Probably the first artist who really captured me was Tim McGraw. His songs 'Don't Take the Girl' and 'Indian Outlaw' were fun, and he was different than a lot of artists.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes.

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.