I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way… — LIZ Copy Share Image
Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
I could send myself right back to the day that I wrote "Angel Of The Morning," how it felt. I had a… — Chip Taylor Copy Share Image
Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in… — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
Telling stories through songwriting has been my favorite thing to do for as long as I can remember. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
