Melody Quote by Glenn Danzig

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

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

— Tom Waits

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's…

— Mirah

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if…

— Conor Oberst

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

— Gregg Allman

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

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

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone…

— Barry Gibb

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Megan McKenna

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

— John Lydon