I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core. — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group. — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“Hidden in dreams are arts that haven’t been crafted, and songs that haven’t been chanted.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour… — Sammy Cahn Copy Share Image
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting -… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
There are a lot of new sounds I've gone for, which I may not have been ready to go for in the… — Illy Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try.… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, I saw an opportunity to forge new ground and focus on songwriting. Not many people were… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
