Songwriting Quotes · Page 11

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

— KT Tunstall

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

— Beau Bokan

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

— Mike Gordon

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

— Luis Fonsi

Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.

— Borns

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

— Noel Gallagher

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

— Tom Waits

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're…

— Tom Waits

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into…

— Emeli Sande

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have…

— Steven Morrissey

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten…

— Cary Ann Hearst

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

— Taylor Swift

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where…

— Diane Warren

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

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

— Laura Marling

I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I…

— Julian Casablancas

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that…

— Guy Pearce

I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't…

— Merle Haggard

Vangelis, who wrote the music for 'Chariots Of Fire,' is a bit of an idol of mine - his music is stunning.…

— Paul Young

The only thing I could see myself doing is music - songwriting or producing or something. I've never seen myself being in…

— Demi Lovato

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I…

— Leonard Cohen

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life.…

— Cat Stevens

When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things…

— Robyn

I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But…

— Scott Avett

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts.…

— Keith Richards

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth…

— Paul Zollo

Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact…

— Jason Mraz

I would only listen to certain things, like a lot of teenagers do. But the Tragically Hip is a ribbon that's been…

— John K. Samson

I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew…

— Will Oldham

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.…

— Rod Stewart

Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass…

— Jimmy Webb

70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.

— Robert Gregory Browne

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

— Kris Kristofferson

I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.

— MNEK

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

— Ann Reed

It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.

— Chris Hesse

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

— Noah Cyrus