I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to… — Jessica Lea Mayfield Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea.… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus.… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff. — Sigrid Copy Share Image
I've always treated my songwriting as a process that isn't solely driven by a production model or genre, but instead by a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you. — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process. — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's… — James Bay Copy Share Image
What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
But especially in America when you've got four people in a room and they do a songwriting day, well one of them… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There are therapeutic benefits to songwriting. Whenever I'm feeling upset, I go to the piano. I go to the piano before I… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album.… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
