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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something…

— Thomas Mars

I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well,…

— George Harrison

“The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out.…

— Keith Richards

“I know it'll change, and I know that is has changed. But I still think it's a very satisfying medium, to put together a…

— Jeff Tweedy

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

— Laura Marling

“It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a…

— Walter Isaacson

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together;…

— Alex Turner

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

— Serj Tankian

“All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme’. John Lennon1”

— Dominic Pedler

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the…

— Steve Earle