Beautiful Quote by Emmylou Harris

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

— Franz Liszt

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the…

— Steve Earle

The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story.

— Megan McKenna

The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.

— Kim Shattuck

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

— Martin Gore

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a…

— Kimbra

I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than…

— Justin Timberlake

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core,…

— Chris Young

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that…

— Alex Turner