Songwriting Quotes · Page 10

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

— Jo Dee Messina

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

— Gerard Way

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.

— Diane Warren

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

— Guy Clark

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.

— Antoniette Costa

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

— Sharon Van Etten

“Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate…

— Stephen Sondheim

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the…

— Jason Isbell

Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.

— Jeffrey Steele

My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know…

— Phoebe Bridgers

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises…

— Sheryl Crow

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,…

— Michael Gira

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted…

— Bob Dylan

It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still…

— Phil Elverum

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I…

— Sue Grafton

It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a…

— Scott Avett

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact…

— Marissa Nadler

I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape…

— Richard Thompson

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided…

— Jason Mraz

I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's…

— Robert Earl Keen

After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott…

— Anthony Fantano

My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to…

— Ani DiFranco

What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And…

— Thom Yorke

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori…

— Tim McGraw

The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they…

— Sandra Dallas

I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But…

— Scott Avett

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts.…

— Keith Richards

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth…

— Paul Zollo

We had some ups and downs, creatively, as the season went on, which is true of any show. If you compound that…

— Robert Greenblatt

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the…

— Warren Zevon

Songwriting is such an intimate thing, and with people you don't normally write with, you're naked.

— Tony Kanal

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

— Calum Scott

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

— Borns

I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.

— Adam Gontier

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

— Amber Liu

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to,

— Brittany Howard

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

— Brian Setzer

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

— Maren Morris