Always Quote by Amy Winehouse

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

— Jakob Dylan

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around…

— Bruce Cockburn

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that…

— James Mercer

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

— Patti Smith

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

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

— Jane Wiedlin

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

— Dan Bejar

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

When I was in high school, I was writing all the time, it was such good practice. But I wasn't writing my best songs.

— Gracie Abrams

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

— David Bowie