Art Quote by Martin Gore

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

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

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

— Neko Case

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up when you…

— Mike Campbell