Songwriting Quotes · Page 38

I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has…

— Daya

My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.

— Sissy Spacek

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a…

— Merle Haggard

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong…

— Colleen O'Connor

On 'Utopia,' I mix sick beats with ethereal elements while trying to keep the focus very much on the songwriting. If you…

— Kerli

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

— Alan Jay Lerner

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs…

— Jakob Dylan

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

— Sia

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's…

— Alison Sudol

Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a mover and shaker of songwriting.

— Michael McDonald

I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop…

— Little Richard

I don't think in the post-apocalyptic skillset 'sensitive songwriting' is one of them.

— JP Saxe

In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it,…

— Andy Wilkinson

If a woman's aim is to become a singer, I would highly advise her to first develop her craft in songwriting. It's…

— Nadia Ali

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

— Ken Hill

I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm…

— Denison Witmer

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time…

— Anonymous

Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle…

— Iron & Wine

I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording…

— Delbert McClinton

I used to daydream in class about what it'd be like to be a singer. It's what I wanted to be ever…

— Daya

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…

— Michael Azerrad

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a…

— Lights

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

— Darius Rucker

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we…

— Lenny Kravitz