My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing. — Jo Stafford Copy Share Image
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
Songwriting can get pretty heavy and personal for me and I like being able to explore different emotions that are not necessarily… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung… — Crowder Copy Share Image
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be… — Chuck Cannon Copy Share Image
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan 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
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me.… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
![“['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown……” quote by James Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dac/james-taylor-2045_anxiety_fire-and-rain-is-sort-of-almost-uncomfor_2217366.jpg)
