Songwriting Quotes · Page 13

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

— Neil Diamond

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

— Zooey Deschanel

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

— Nick Jonas

“I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

— Gregory David Roberts

'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

— Maren Morris

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

— Ryan Tedder

When I'm songwriting, I like to expand the biggest emotion.

— Ruel

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could…

— Bob Dylan

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

— Sheryl Crow

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go.…

— Mose Allison

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves…

— David Byrne

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.'…

— Meghan Trainor

Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in…

— Ruston Kelly

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

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one…

— Kevin Kline

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound…

— Steve Aoki

It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me,…

— Rodney Clawson

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Insatiable,' the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't…

— Nadine Coyle

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard…

— Steve Earle

I'm not good at many things. But I really like songwriting, and I get a good reaction from it. There's not much…

— Lily Allen

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

— Lights

What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing…

— Nick Heyward

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song…

— John Lennon

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make…

— Robbie Robertson

I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar…

— George Harrison

Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to…

— Jim James

Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen…

— Andy Wilkinson

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and…

— Ray Davies

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She…

— Leonard Cohen

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

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

— Carlene Carter

That's the fun of songwriting. You can make it whatever you want.

— Laufey

To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.

— Darius Rucker

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

— Pete Townshend

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

— Ryan Tedder

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

— Juliana Hatfield

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

— Sia

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

— Ray Davies