Songwriting Quotes · Page 14

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

— Noah Cyrus

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

— Neil Finn

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

— Keri Hilson

The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

— Luke Hemmings

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

— Adam Duritz

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

— Margaret Atwood

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch

Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.

— Taylor Goldsmith

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really…

— Mike Shinoda

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to…

— Juliana Hatfield

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour…

— Sammy Cahn

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the…

— Beth Orton

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton…

— Brandi Carlile

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting -…

— Bonnie Raitt

All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play…

— Mat Kearney

While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these…

— Robbie Robertson

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I…

— Carrie Newcomer

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was…

— Patti Smith

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it…

— Lee Ranaldo

Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write,…

— Joel Madden

I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have…

— Butch Vig

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them…

— Tom Waits

As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through…

— Dolly Parton

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'…

— Dolly Parton

All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

— David Berman

Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.

— Mark Foster

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from

— Paul Weller

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

— John Lennon

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

— Donovan

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

— Margaret Atwood

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

— Michael Bolton

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

— Neil Diamond

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

— Bibi Bourelly

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

— KT Tunstall

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

— Beau Bokan

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

— The Weeknd