Art Quote by Chris Cornell

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point,…

— Chris Cornell

I guess songwriting has become a little more difficult for me over the years or maybe I regard it in a different light because…

— Justin Rutledge

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time…

— Josh Turner

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking…

— Tom Waits

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde

I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test…

— Crowder

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to…

— Jakob Dylan

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

— Greg Lake

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

— Jason Derulo

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…

— Lou Reed