Best Songwriting Lines

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Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can… — Patterson Hood
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider
Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point. — Unknown Author
If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want… — Kris Kristofferson
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs… — Bob Dylan
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth… — Margaret Atwood
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. — Margaret Atwood
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. — Margaret Atwood
You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain. — Margaret Atwood
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.… — Margaret Atwood
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it. — Margaret Atwood
Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs. — Unknown Author
Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were there as part… — Andy Wilkinson
In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't… — Andy Wilkinson
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to… — Andy Wilkinson
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all of us. When… — Andy Wilkinson
I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of… — Andy Wilkinson
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be,… — Andy Wilkinson
We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer,… — Andy Wilkinson
I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a… — Andy Wilkinson
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and… — Andy Wilkinson
Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or… — Andy Wilkinson
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,… — John Fowles

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