Acoustic guitar Quote by Barry Kerch

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

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

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want…

— Tyler Joseph

It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control…

— Kate Bush

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that…

— Mike Campbell

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

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off…

— Kathy Acker

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's…

— Mirah

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff and putting…

— Alison Sudol