Art Quote by David Berman

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't…

— Elena Tonra

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way…

— Rufus Wainwright

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

— Ray Davies

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that…

— Tom T. Hall

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the…

— Chris Stapleton

I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun in any…

— Olivia Rodrigo

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

I think what makes me great as a songwriter is there's still an artist behind it.

— The-Dream

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi