Listening Quote by Tom Waits

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

— Tom Waits

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

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

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience…

— Amos Lee

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy…

— Lyle Lovett

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter.…

— Sinead O'Connor

The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and…

— Stevie Wonder

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned…

— Michael Kosser

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

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler