Songwriting Quotes · Page 10

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

— Margaret Atwood

I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core.

— Victoria Legrand

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

— Valerie Simpson

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

— Maren Morris

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

— Conor Oberst

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

— Neneh Cherry

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I…

— Luke Bryan

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when…

— Jeremy Fisher

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it…

— Loretta Lynn

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

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and…

— Linda Ronstadt

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry…

— Rosanne Cash

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of…

— Jade Bird

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

— Billy Squier

While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these…

— Robbie Robertson

“Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I…

— Carrie Newcomer

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it…

— Lee Ranaldo

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was…

— Patti Smith

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

I don't think there are any clichés I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a cliché, I go for it.…

— Stephin Merritt

I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics.…

— Kasey Anderson

I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There…

— Mickey Newbury

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for…

— David Crosby

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori…

— Tim McGraw

What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And…

— Thom Yorke

The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they…

— Sandra Dallas

Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the…

— Craig Finn

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by…

— Andy Wilkinson

“Hidden in dreams are arts that haven’t been crafted, and songs that haven’t been chanted.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

— The Weeknd

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

— Stephen King

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

— Richie Sambora

I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

— Mary Gauthier

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

— Billy Bob Thornton

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

— Bibi Bourelly