Berlin Quote by Cole Porter

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was…

— Jerry Leiber

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are…

— George Gershwin

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins…

— Ahmet Ertegun

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by…

— Mike Stoller

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

— Bonnie McKee

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

— Creed Bratton

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and…

— Jackie DeShannon

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But…

— Barry Manilow