Songwriting Quotes · Page 9

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

— Lady Gaga

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

— Frank Harte

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

— Bebe Rexha

No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.

— Gin Wigmore

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

— Benjamin Orr

Songwriting is my true passion and that's what the BMI awards are all about.

— Kevin Rudolf

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I'm such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George…

— Matthew Ramsey

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had…

— Paul Anka

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist

I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a…

— Curt Smith

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in…

— Nick Cave

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

— Timothy B. Schmit

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an…

— Barry Manilow

My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of…

— Billy Gibbons

There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams…

— Fred Eaglesmith

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think,…

— Paul Simon

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft…

— Linda Ronstadt

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging…

— Butch Hancock

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most…

— Dolly Parton

I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,…

— Janis Ian

In a basic music way, my sense of melody and my style of songwriting and production carry the same thought process into…

— Sophie

You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent…

— Irving Berlin

I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics.…

— Kasey Anderson

Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a…

— Travis Stewart

I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along…

— Fiona Apple

Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the…

— Craig Finn

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by…

— Andy Wilkinson

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for…

— David Crosby

I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There…

— Mickey Newbury

“... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

— Mick Jagger

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

— Will Sheff

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

— Johnny Cash

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

— Mick Taylor

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

— Neil Innes

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

— Tom Waits