Bases Quote by Michael Kosser

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn…

— Tom Odell

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will…

— Jon Stewart

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

— Tom Waits

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take…

— Tom Waits

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote.…

— PJ Harvey

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

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

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them…

— Nick Cave

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do…

— Norah Jones

I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to…

— John Legend

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy…

— Lyle Lovett