How Quote by Kurt Elling

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

— Alex Turner

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

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

— Gregg Allman

I've always been a songwriter, whether it's singing or playing with a band or doing DJ sets, they're all different ways to deliver my…

— Matthew Koma

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

— Dave Kikoski

You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The radio has…

— Justin Tranter

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

— Theophilus London

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is…

— Frank Ocean

Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.

— Grace Chatto

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

— Fred Frith

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

— Joni Mitchell