I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the…

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the…

— Fred Eaglesmith

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

— Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned…

— Michael Kosser

The foundation for me is the songwriting and the craft. All I want is for people to hear the music. Just put me in…

— Van Hunt

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

— Kate Nash

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

— Christopher Cross

“If you write it down, you can make it happen.”

— Staness Jonekos

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

— Daphne Gottlieb

I would like to write or make a completely ambient song.

— Ruel

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've…

— Gwen Stefani

I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.

— Daphne Gottlieb

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.

— Tara Moss

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

— Elmore Leonard

We write to make sense of it all.

— Wallace Stegner

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

— Alan Garner