I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour… — Sammy Cahn Copy Share Image
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy… — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
I think when you go into a room and you're fresh in the songwriting, producing world or going into sessions, no idea… — G Flip Copy Share Image
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this… — Stephen Foster Copy Share Image
No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be. — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point. — Jeffrey Steele Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When Eric Clapton cut 'After Midnight,' he sold so many records and it was so big at the time, I decided that… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted… — Ryan Hurd Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
Even though I do a lot of songwriting, there's always other great material out there that you have to be aware of. — James Ingram Copy Share Image
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. — George Frideric Handel Copy Share Image
All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
