Being honest Quote by Nick Cave

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically…

— Helene Grimaud

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

— Jakob Dylan

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

— Neil Gaiman

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

— Oscar Wilde

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

— Geddy Lee

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

— Robert Black

There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I…

— Ryan McGinness

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

— Jacob Collier

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

— Wayne Coyne

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

— Win Butler

Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and…

— Nancy Dubuc