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For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song… — Jessica Lea Mayfield
Often the simplest song is the hardest to write. — Patti Smith
Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about… — Dan Jenkins
When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all… — Richie Havens
I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk… — Rickie Lee Jones
I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see… — Richard Thompson
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But… — Paul Zollo
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. — Elaine Dundy
I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but… — David Crosby
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write… — David Crosby
You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that… — David Crosby
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise… — Troy Walker
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. — Tracy Keenan Wynn
I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and… — Miranda Lambert
If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even… — M. Ward
I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham… — Don Helms
Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song… — Lou Reed
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;… — John Fowles
I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life… — Rivers Cuomo

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