Department Quote by Lee Ann Womack

As a consumer, if I heard someone who said, "I've written this song," and then I found out it wasn't by them, it's a…

— Howard Lawrence

There are so many songwriters that people don't know about. There's so many producers that people don't know about.

— Rosalia

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take…

— Nuno Bettencourt

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best…

— Brendon Urie

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might…

— Poo Bear

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The…

— Carl Gardner

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than…

— Kara DioGuardi

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing…

— Christine Lavin

If someone has given a hit in the industry, and everyone talks about the song and artist, that's a hit.

— Guru Randhawa

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

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the…

— Ronnie Dunn

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute…

— Lou Reed