I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I think songwriting has really helped me home in on what I like about myself and my art. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs,… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting. — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel. — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
My view is that the great songwriting happened between 1920 and 1960. We're all, in our different ways, descended from the great… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who… — Mirah Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
The way that I write is very instinctual and based off raw feeling--I'm a very emotional person and I think that comes… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
The best songs are written through our anger. Even though feelings change over time, our lyrics will always remain inside the song… — Kastle King Copy Share Image
It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me,… — Rodney Clawson Copy Share Image
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
