Crafty Quote by Alan Jackson

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or…

— Pete Seeger

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 a three-minute…

— Lou Reed

Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a beat and…

— Darrelle Revis

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the…

— Steve Earle

Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write…

— William Clark Green

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a…

— Ester Dean

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.

— David Hepworth

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

— Lyle Lovett

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes…

— Nick Lowe

The thrill of writing songs for other people, when you get that right, that person's soul speaks to that song; you've done them a…

— LP

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will…

— Jon Stewart

That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go…

— Ron Mael