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James Blunt
As emotional upbringings go, being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as
any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does
create an incredible intensity of emotion
Amy Winehouse
Songwriting is an exorcism. I get all my stuff out there. If I didn’t have this medium to get my experiences across, I would be lost
Avril Lavigne
I wrote “Girlfriend” when I was drunk. The chorus was written in two minutes. It took nothing. And what's
really cool about “I Can Do Better” is we wrote it, and then I just ran into the booth, and I sang. I laid
down the verse, and ... we just used my demo [take]. It was totally different - so much fun!
Katie Melua
I would love to go in there and make an album full of songs I've written, but the most important thing for
me is that they are good songs. "I know I'm not that experienced in songwriting and Mike Batt's been
doing it for so long, and is so bloody good. So for me, the priority is that the songs are great. I think he
wants me to write more. So do I but I'm not going to stop recording other people's songs just to be
pretentious
Billy Joel
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary
John Lennon
“Please Please Me” is my song totally. It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song. I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie's place. I
heard Roy Orbison doing “Only The Lonely” or something. That's where that came from. And also I was
always intrigued by the words of “Please Lend Your Ears To My Pleas,” a Bing Crosby song. So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison
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International Songwriters Association • The ISA
The Original Songwriting Centre • Founded 1967
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Sting Believes Songwriting Is Therapy!
"Songwriting is a kind of therapy for both the writer and the listener if
you choose to use it that way. When you see that stuff help other people
that's great and wonderful confirmation that you're doing the right thing."
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The Premier Songwriting Contest - The Eurovision
From Lys Assia (Switzerland 1956), to Alexander Rybak, who won for
Norway in 2009, we examine the winners (and the losers) in what has become
the most famous (or infamous) song contest in the world - the Eurovision!
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Are You Selling Your Songs?
Songwriter Magazine is giving away absolutely free, the 60,0000 word International Songwriters Association Course "Selling Your Songs" to any songwriter who wants it. Click the pic for the full story!
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Looking For A Hit Songwriter?
Singers, bands, and managers seeking hit songs, contact us daily.
If you are looking for unpublished songwriting product,
our songwriters will happily oblige. Just click the pic!
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John Lennon Songwriting Contest
The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is open to songwriters and lyric writers, and is one of the most successful songwriting contests of all, attracting songwriters and songwriting teams from all over he world.
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Songwriter Interview - Gene Pitney
"Today's Teardrops by Roy Orbison was a big hit, but not my biggest
songwriting hit. That was Hello Mary Lou which I gave to Rick Nelson, and I've spent a lifetime analysing why it was as big as it was".
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Songwriter Interview - Sonny Curtis
"Leo Sayer, a songwriter himself, was in his hotel room, watching television, and on came More Than I Can Say in this K-Tel commercial and he said - 'Wow, I always wanted to do that song'. And he did!"
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Songwriter Interview - Hal Shaper
"In the early days, I had no instinct towards fame or fortune, I just liked being a songwriter. I always used to wake up thinking, 'I can't imagine why everyone in the world doesn't write songs for a living!'"
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Songwriter Interview - Lionel Bart
"I wrote songs for Cliff for the film. The Living Doll song itself - one morning, I was looking at the Sunday Mirror, I think, and I saw
this ad for a doll that did everything. And I thought, "That'll do"
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Songwriter Interview - Barry Mason
"I wrote a song called Girl Of Mine for Elvis and there were two versions made of that. One with just the rhythm section, for the fans, without The Jordanaires or violins - and that's the version I've got"
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Publisher Interview - Terry Noon
"The only thing I had was an E-type Jaguar, my pride and joy. I
absolutely doted on that car, and I sold it, to start Noon Music. It
was the hardest thing but it was the only way I could raise money."
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