Songwriting Quotes · Page 2

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

— Julian Casablancas

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

— Alberta Hunter

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

— Courtney Love

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

— Adam Rich

To play without passion is inexcusable!

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

— R.C. Bannon

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

— Patti Smith

I am really heavy into songwriting.

— Anonymous

It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.

— Benji Hughes

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

— Parker Posey

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

— Dave Grohl

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

— Troye Sivan

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

— Mark Kozelek

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

— John Oates

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

— Taylor Swift

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 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

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

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

Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual…

— Ian Anderson

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

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

— Robbie Robertson

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

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 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

Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every…

— Guy Clark

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little…

— Jeff Mangum

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

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three…

— Kate Bush

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And…

— Ani DiFranco

Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were…

— Michael Kosser

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words,…

— Michael Jackson