Difficult Quote by Van Morrison

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

— Bent Saether

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

— Adam Gopnik

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart…

— Tim Gane

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've…

— Lou Barlow

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

— Natalie Prass

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it…

— James Mercer

Writing music is hard if your head is full of waste.

— Justin Chancellor

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

— George Gershwin

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

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had…

— Quincy Jones

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

— Maren Morris