Clever Quote by Ben Gibbard

Of course I can appreciate the musicality of the pieces and sometimes the lyrics are generic enough to be listened to without reference, but…

— Christian Campbell

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes…

— David Berman

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

— Iggy Pop

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up…

— Denison Witmer

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a…

— Christian Scott

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters…

— JC Chasez

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the…

— Peter Gabriel

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

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