Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense. — Goldie Copy Share Image
Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens! — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who… — Mikky Ekko Copy Share Image
I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head,… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We had some ups and downs, creatively, as the season went on, which is true of any show. If you compound that… — Robert Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are. — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really… — Melissa Auf der Maur Copy Share Image
Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume Copy Share Image
I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist -… — LP Copy Share Image
