Formulas Quote by Al Jardine

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take…

— Nuno Bettencourt

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many…

— PJ Harvey

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

— Bonnie McKee

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

— Enya

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you…

— Maren Morris

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn…

— Tom Odell

No matter what, if you write a song that's great that everyone expects to be a hit, then everyone's going to be expecting another…

— LP

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

— Juicy J

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was…

— John Denver

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it…

— Valerie Simpson

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and…

— Gene Autry