Almost Quote by Dar Williams

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

— Dar Williams

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something…

— Zooey Deschanel

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room,…

— Kelly Jones

Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their…

— Paul Zollo

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

— Matthew Ramsey

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch;…

— Lee Brice

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to…

— Leo Kottke

I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would…

— Anne-Marie

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

— Patty Griffin

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on…

— Kat Edmonson

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

— Guru Randhawa