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
I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I… — Ben Folds 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
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 Copy Share Image
I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Once I got into pop songwriting, I was kind of just ready to help other people tell their stories... I'm here to… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
No, I don't think songwriting is emotionally challenging - I feel like it's almost a way to sort through your emotions and… — Borns Copy Share Image
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I actually played guitar before I played drums. And I always play guitar on the Slipknot albums as well, as well as… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline. — James Blake Copy Share Image
All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore,… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
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