Songwriting Quotes · Page 21

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten…

— Cary Ann Hearst

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

— Taylor Swift

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have…

— Steven Morrissey

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where…

— Diane Warren

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

— Laura Marling

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time…

— Anonymous

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry…

— Rosanne Cash

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and…

— Linda Ronstadt

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear…

— Lenny Kravitz

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the…

— Damon Thomas

The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching…

— Steve Weinstein

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with…

— Pete Townshend

The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I'd…

— Joey McIntyre

The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's…

— Colin Meloy

I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of…

— Richard Thompson

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the…

— John Irving

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're…

— Tom Waits

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

— Billy Squier

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of…

— Jade Bird

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into…

— Emeli Sande

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

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an…

— Barry Manilow

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

— Timothy B. Schmit

“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 had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had…

— Paul Anka

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist

I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a…

— Curt Smith

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in…

— Nick Cave

Annie Lalley is one of the funniest and most likable personalities you'll ever see on stage --which makes the depth of her…

— Pierce Pettis

That's been a pretty interesting thing, visiting schools and performing and doing songwriting talks and stuff.

— Declan McKenna

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs,…

— Bruce Cockburn

There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I'm such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George…

— Matthew Ramsey

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively…

— David Grubbs