Big Quote by Bill Callahan

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

— Jann Klose

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 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

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting it and…

— Maisie Peters

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

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 believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind…

— Robert Christgau