Beast Quote by Steve Harris

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

— Johnny Cash

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

— Richard LaGravenese

There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen…

— Neil Sedaka

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

— William Beckett

It is true I've written songs for other performers; I've worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.

— Chesney Hawkes

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

— Mel Brooks

There's more to music than just words over tracks.

— Goldlink

Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,' and they're all the same…

— John 5

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't…

— Charlie Watts

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

— Leona Lewis

I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After…

— Andrew Bird

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie