Ideas Quote by Pete Seeger

Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a beat and…

— Darrelle Revis

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times…

— Alan Jackson

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

— Lights

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes…

— Nick Lowe

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

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you…

— Maren Morris

The thrill of writing songs for other people, when you get that right, that person's soul speaks to that song; you've done them a…

— LP

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going…

— Matthew Ramsey

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other…

— Paloma Faith

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 it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else would notice.

— Olivia Rodrigo

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and…

— Gene Autry