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Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

— Pete Townshend

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

— Tom T. Hall

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

— Taylor Swift

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do…

— Norah Jones

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

— LP

That's the fun of songwriting. You can make it whatever you want.

— Laufey

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

— Lights

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

— Jane Wiedlin

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

— Richie Sambora