Songwriting Quotes · Page 33

I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of…

— Mirah

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

— Conor Oberst

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there…

— Calum Scott

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in,…

— Mark Kozelek

I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I…

— Katy Perry

I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

— Camila Cabello

As you get older, your songwriting starts to become less and less about you, and especially when you have kids and a…

— Sam Roberts

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

— Jo Dee Messina

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where…

— Carly Simon

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.

— Richie Sambora

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

— Benjamin Orr

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I…

— Neko Case

My songwriting process is based on a formula: Color, tone, words. When I hear production, I initially identify the color that resonates…

— Ravyn Lenae

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

— Geddy Lee

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not…

— Ester Dean

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it…

— Brendon Urie

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that…

— James Taylor

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises…

— Sheryl Crow

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'…

— Dolly Parton

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about…

— Bruce Cockburn

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big…

— Carrie Underwood

I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more…

— David Massengill

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

— Warren Zevon