Songwriting Quotes · Page 9

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

— Natalie Imbruglia

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

— Townes Van Zandt

I don't think in the post-apocalyptic skillset 'sensitive songwriting' is one of them.

— JP Saxe

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

— Dionne Bromfield

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

— Jade Bird

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

— Emeli Sande

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's…

— Alison Sudol

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing.…

— Chris Hillman

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in…

— Neil Diamond

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's…

— Willie Dixon

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

— Alan Jackson

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life.…

— Ann Wilson

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you…

— Ester Dean

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like…

— Ann Reed

I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the…

— James Taylor

Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write,…

— Joel Madden

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them…

— Tom Waits

I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have…

— Butch Vig

Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could…

— Lorenz Hart

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

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows…

— Leonard Cohen

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling…

— Lauryn Hill

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is…

— Usher

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try…

— Sheryl Crow

Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to…

— Michael Kosser

We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the…

— Andy Wilkinson

Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a…

— Travis Stewart

I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along…

— Fiona Apple

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

— Flume

I think songwriting has really helped me home in on what I like about myself and my art.

— Olivia Rodrigo

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

— Warren Zevon

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at.

— LP

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

— Eddie Vedder