Absolute truth Quote by Paul Westerberg

Actually think anybody ever approaches writing any song, I think the song approaches them, truth be told. Usually what happens is that a song…

— Jon Fratelli

Songwriters tell the truth.

— Kara DioGuardi

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

— Greg Lake

Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story,…

— C. Sigman

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

— John Hiatt

I'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets…

— Finneas

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music,

— Tom Odell

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what…

— Bob Dylan

I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to…

— Sam Fender

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

— Friedrich Schiller

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen

I think that 'Tell the Truth' is one of the best rock records ever made by me or anyone - I really do.

— Billy Squier