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Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don't deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it's good to keep 'em around. Maxwell

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A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute. Maxwell

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There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. Mel Torme

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I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career. Melanie Martinez

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I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do. Melissa Etheridge

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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material. Merle Haggard

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You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in. Merry Clayton

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I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand. Merry Clayton

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When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit. Michael Bacon

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A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent. Michael Bacon

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When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. Michael Bolton

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I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra. Michael Bolton

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I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something. Michael Buble

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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. Michael Caine

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Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. Michael Franti

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We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there. Michael Franti

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We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing. Michael Hutchence

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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. Michael Kiwanuka

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When I listen to songs, to this day, I listen to the chords and the groove and the melody. Michael McDonald

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