Songwriting Quotes

652 quotes by 379 authors

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams
I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself. — Michael Bolton
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting. — Unknown Author
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with… — Luke Bryan
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. — Pablo Casals
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. — Nick Cave
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that… — Nick Cave
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of… — Nick Cave
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in… — Nick Cave
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. — Tracy Chapman
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of… — Leonard Cohen
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every… — PJ Harvey
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I… — Fiona Apple
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb… — Trent Reznor
Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely… — George Gershwin
I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge… — Unknown Author
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. — Kurt Weill
I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
You write a hit the same way you write a flop. — Alan Jay Lerner
It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. — Frederic Loewe

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