Songwriting Quotes · Page 6

I don't think in the post-apocalyptic skillset 'sensitive songwriting' is one of them.

— JP Saxe

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

— Jason Derulo

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

— Tom Walker

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

— Natalie Imbruglia

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

— John Oates

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

— Mark Kozelek

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

— Pattie Boyd

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

— Tyler Childers

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…

— John Fowles

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those…

— Ben Gibbard

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know.…

— Jackson Browne

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three…

— Kate Bush

I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in…

— Miranda Lambert

“I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain.…

— Jon Skovron

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of…

— Wendy Starland

I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that…

— Justin Townes Earle

The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here…

— Rob Brezsny

I get to play with pop music and mix up the style. It's fun to play with party music and nice to…

— Nomi Ruiz

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it…

— Dean Dillon

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

There are a lot of new sounds I've gone for, which I may not have been ready to go for in the…

— Illy

I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like…

— Charles Kelley

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

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

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words,…

— Michael Jackson

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to…

— Freddie Mercury

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.…

— Joe Strummer

Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I…

— Paul Simon

Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta…

— Dan Bern

“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our…

— Criss Jami

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it…

— Andy Wilkinson

I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate…

— John Bush

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

— Troye Sivan

Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

— Dave Grohl

The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor.

— David Hepworth

That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.

— Tristen Gaspadarek

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

— Jens Lekman

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

— Gwen Stefani