Again Quote by Brad Paisley

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great…

— Ezra Furman

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

— Hunter Hayes

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

— Ryan Tedder

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

— Serj Tankian

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a…

— Tom Glazer

I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new…

— Paul Banks

I don't think there are any clichés I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a cliché, I go for it. I feel…

— Stephin Merritt

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

I hate it when songwriters go on and on with the same idea.

— Kim Shattuck

“I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own…

— Khaled Hosseini