Activity Quote by Thurston Moore

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

— Mike Lowry

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case…

— Bradford Cox

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

— Tom T. Hall

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

— Neil Diamond

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

— Amos Lee

My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably…

— Linda Perry

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

I've always treated my songwriting as a process that isn't solely driven by a production model or genre, but instead by a feeling, a…

— Matthew Koma

I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test…

— Crowder