Happened Quote by Tyler Hilton

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

— Bruno Mars

I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment,…

— Bonnie Baker

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way…

— Norah Jones

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

— Donovan

When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get…

— Nadine Velazquez

There are so many different things that lend themselves to what makes a song magical, that go beyond just the lyrics or the composition.…

— Michelle Zauner

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating…

— J. J. Cale

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that…

— Mike Campbell

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.…

— Conor Oberst