Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left. — Art Tatum Copy Share Image
It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody. — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well. — James Bay Copy Share Image
Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I… — Carole King Copy Share Image
I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is… — Usher Copy Share Image
I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice. — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at. — Sia Copy Share Image
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. — George Frideric Handel Copy Share Image
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![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
![“[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.” quote by Nick Jonas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb2/nick-jonas-2528_music_songwriting-is-something-that-i-own-it-s_2746474.jpg)
