Tag: songwriting quotes

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Sep 29, 2026

“Every song matters.” — Ella Langley | Quote of the Day

Ella Langley, the Alabama songwriter whose “Choosin’ Texas” just became the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history, on why she keeps writing as if every song could change her life — because one quietly did.

Ella Langley

Sep 27, 2026

“Songwriting isn’t something that I do or command, it happens to me.” — Brandi Carlile | Quote of the Day

Brandi Carlile, the 11-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, two-time Emmy winner, Oscar nominee and No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoirist, on where songs actually come from — not a thing she commands but a thing that happens to her — in a month when her Austin City Limits Hall of Fame induction aired and she headlines the All Things Go festival.

Brandi Carlile

Sep 4, 2026

“Oh, for the sake of momentum, I’ve allowed my fears to get larger than life.” — Aimee Mann | Quote of the Day

Aimee Mann, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who has spent four decades writing sharp, literate songs about underdogs, fear and the refusal to stop, on the confession at the heart of her song “Momentum” from the Magnolia soundtrack — a reminder, days before her sixty-fifth birthday and weeks after the New York opening of the musical Girl, Interrupted built from her songs, that most of our fears are only as large as we allow them to become.

Aimee Mann