Art Quote by Lydia Loveless

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later…

— Etgar Keret

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

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came…

— Dawn Richard

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

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

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

— Lights

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

— Aesop Rock

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

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

— Steve Doll

Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live…

— Curt Smith

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is…

— Ray LaMontagne