I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try.… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby… — Diplo Copy Share Image
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to… — Jim James Copy Share Image
It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline. — James Blake Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that just does songwriting one way. Personally, I think the best song will pop out… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go. — Adam Gontier Copy Share Image
When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can. — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done… — Tom Cochrane Copy Share Image
Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
