What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me,… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I find out a little more every single day about myself. And when it comes to my songwriting, I feel like it's… — Lainey Wilson Copy Share Image
Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio… — Robin Guthrie Copy Share Image
The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the… — Harvey Mason, Jr Copy Share Image
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I miss working. It's real, you know? But I don't know anything but songwriting, and I don't even know that. I didn't… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
My third hire when I came to Spotify was Tiffany Kumar, who came on as our global head of songwriter relations. The… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day.… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I think going away and disappearing for a couple of years - or a few years, or whatever - definitely changed the… — Elly Jackson Copy Share Image
I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring… — Yuna Copy Share Image
After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus.… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
I guess songwriting has become a little more difficult for me over the years or maybe I regard it in a different… — Justin Rutledge Copy Share Image
Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more… — Frank Liddell Copy Share Image
For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to… — Jessica Lea Mayfield Copy Share Image
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea.… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and… — Finn Andrews Copy Share Image
![“Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic]...there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why.” quote by Jorma Kaukonen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eec/jorma-kaukonen-31193_agree_some-hit-songs-are-really-stupid-and-who_1229753.jpg)
![“When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of…” quote by Finn Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/527/finn-andrews-55992_andrew_when-i-was-young-i-wanted-to-make-films_240740.jpg)
