Listening Quote by Paul Gilbert

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

— Borns

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop…

— Christina Perri

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

— Jesse Plemons

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

— Maren Morris

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is…

— Jason Robert Brown

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from…

— Matt Redman

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were…

— Jakob Dylan

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

— Jakob Dylan

I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution.

— Jeongyeon

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

— Kim Shattuck

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late '70s pop stuff - Billy Joel, James…

— India Arie