Books Quote by Dominic Pedler

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or…

— Pete Seeger

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

— Eddie Rabbitt

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody…

— Chester Bennington

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

— Paul Simon

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

— Gary Rossington

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

— Jade Bird

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even…

— Anonymous

It's really hard to learn songwriting from a book.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

— James Blake

Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward.

— John Waite

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you…

— Regina Spektor