I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. — Beck Copy Share Image
The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's… — Tristen Gaspadarek Copy Share Image
And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy… — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
We have a camp up in the Adirondacks with no electricity, and I find that it's one of the most fertile places… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I've lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting. — Aimee Osbourne Copy Share Image
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy… There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years… — Brent Smith Copy Share Image
The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to… — Feist Copy Share Image
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has… — Daya Copy Share Image
Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am… — Rayvon Owen Copy Share Image
All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same. — James Righton Copy Share Image
I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in,… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs. — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing.… — Chris Hillman Copy Share Image
Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done… — Tom Cochrane Copy Share Image
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
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