Be you Quote by John Legend

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

— Kiesza

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned…

— Michael Kosser

I think, as an artist, the overall goal is to teach and educate no matter what the song is about. Somewhere where a listener…

— Gza

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to…

— Jason Isbell

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn…

— Tom Odell

Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves what they…

— Rodney Crowell

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted…

— Shura

I think that anyone really can write songs, it just takes having an idea and a feeling and chasing it, and you can learn…

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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

Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels…

— Greta Salpeter

There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess…

— Jakob Dylan

Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.

— Borns