I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of…

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as…

— Marnie Stern

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point,…

— Chris Cornell

Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

— Alissa White-Gluz

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to…

— Steve Berlin

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you…

— Chris Cornell

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading…

— Glen Hansard

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick"…

— John Fogerty

We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist,…

— Andy Wilkinson

Playing live if the thing I love doing best

— Bob Geldof

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands…

— Corey Taylor

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

— Dusty Hill

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

— Gavin Rossdale

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.

— Ryan Ross

I love playing live and meeting a lot of the people and hearing their stories and how the music touches their lives.

— Susan Tedeschi

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

— Denny Laine