Bird Quote by Tom Waits

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

— Gregg Allman

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want…

— Tyler Joseph

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

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

— David Bowie

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

— Shakira

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

— Colin Linden

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

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

— Avi Kaplan