Direction Quote by K. Flay

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

— Taylor Swift

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never…

— George Gershwin

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is…

— Chuck Close

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived…

— Halsey

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I need to…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.

— K. Flay

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

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 in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm…

— Ryan Tedder

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going…

— Ben Harper

I feel like the inspiration is that I've managed to change my songwriting over the past couple of years and also production styles. I…

— Marika Hackman