Beauty Quote by Kimbra

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless…

— Harry Styles

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

— Zach Condon

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

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.…

— Conor Oberst

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann

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

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

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a…

— Todd Rundgren

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

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

— Katie Melua

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

— Jessica Origliasso