Discovery Quote by Jackson Browne

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that…

— Mike Campbell

It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The…

— Luke Pritchard

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused…

— John Oates

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I…

— Benmont Tench

Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear…

— Chris Wyse

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it.…

— Jim James

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in…

— Aretha Franklin