Effort Quote by Frank Ocean

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

— Robert Downey, Jr

There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.

— King Princess

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

— Irving Berlin

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

— David Bowie

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

— Aparna Sen

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then…

— Casey Abrams

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

Music takes us where words cannot.

— Henry Winkler

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

— Courtney Barnett