Learn Quote by Alice Merton

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

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

— Taylor Swift

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it…

— James Mercer

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

— Kiesza

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

— Tom Waits

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song,…

— Lights

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

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

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

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

— Michael Kosser

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the…

— Keren Ann