I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the… — Johnny Christ Copy Share Image
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting -… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I've always treated my songwriting as a process that isn't solely driven by a production model or genre, but instead by a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase,… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
“I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is And right now I'm loving how fast my… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my… — Daya Copy Share Image
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write,… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to… — Feist Copy Share Image
The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write,… — Joel Madden Copy Share Image
