I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when… — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
But especially in America when you've got four people in a room and they do a songwriting day, well one of them… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to… — Bono Copy Share Image
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution. — Jeongyeon Copy Share Image
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I… — Psy Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world… — Oliver Sim Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
