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 Copy Share Image
I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged. — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world. — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme? — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus.… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to… — Jessica Lea Mayfield Copy Share Image
I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
In a basic music way, my sense of melody and my style of songwriting and production carry the same thought process into… — Sophie Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left. — Art Tatum Copy Share Image
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
