I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it. — John Popper Copy Share Image
There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I'm such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs,… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through. — Feist Copy Share Image
I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my… — Daya Copy Share Image
I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
When it comes to songwriting, I grew up in the Seventies listening to AM radio. So I've all these pop songs running… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well. — James Bay Copy Share Image
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
I think some of my previous stuff... I tend to be a bit lazy in songwriting, where I'll just keep the first… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour… — Sammy Cahn Copy Share Image
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting -… — Bonnie Raitt 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
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the… — Beth Orton 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
All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
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