Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
The foundation for me is the songwriting and the craft. All I want is for people to hear the music. Just put… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything… — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more… — Frank Liddell Copy Share Image
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“I hope that one day, I can again believe in you and sing a song for you while holding you in my… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again. — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Ron's songwriting and my singing are something that can't be detached from each other. They are inseparable. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff. — Dionne Bromfield Copy Share Image
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way.… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it.… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship. — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
