Becoming better Quote by Stephin Merritt

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs…

— Paul Stanley

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to…

— Lauren Mayberry

The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived.…

— Joe Walsh

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But…

— Jakob Dylan

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

— Brian Eno

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

— Johnny Mercer

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the…

— Steve Earle

People don't really care about lyrics anymore. It's kinda really sad, like they'll listen to something musically and has a really cool beat down…

— Roger Miret

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

— Bobby Bare

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson