Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always…

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

— Manuel de Falla

I don't enjoy songwriting.

— Rod Stewart

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it…

— Benjamin Franklin

A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends,…

— Vladimir Putin

I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about…

— Avril Lavigne

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.…

— Conor Oberst

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are…

— Lights

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking…

— Tom Waits

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

— Stephen L. Carter

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst