Songwriting Quotes · Page 11

“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

— Criss Jami

Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

— Irvine Welsh

I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!

— Astrid S

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

— Nick Cave

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

— Halsey

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

— Ray Davies

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

— Dave Eggers

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

— Tom Stoppard

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's…

— Brian Molko

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

— Stephen L. Carter

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to…

— Mick Jagger

In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at…

— Chris Young

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically…

— Paul Zollo

I think some of my previous stuff... I tend to be a bit lazy in songwriting, where I'll just keep the first…

— Ryan Bingham

I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to…

— RaeLynn

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I…

— Ben Folds

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that…

— David Byrne

When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your…

— Richie Havens

I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my…

— Daya

I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.…

— Donnie Fritts

When it comes to songwriting, I grew up in the Seventies listening to AM radio. So I've all these pop songs running…

— Paul Gilbert

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long…

— Buzz Osborne

'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it…

— David Lynch

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from…

— Stevie Wonder

I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem…

— Rivers Cuomo

For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I…

— John Fogerty

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New…

— Chuck Berry

Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to…

— Michael Kosser

We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the…

— Andy Wilkinson

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows…

— Leonard Cohen

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling…

— Lauryn Hill

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

— Betty Carter

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

— Krist Novoselic

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

— John Lennon

Telling stories through songwriting has been my favorite thing to do for as long as I can remember.

— Olivia Rodrigo

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

— Stevie Wonder

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

— Coeur de pirate

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

— Dave Mustaine

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

— Anthony Kiedis