Best Quote by Withered Hand

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a…

— Jens Lekman

I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic…

— Donovan

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

— Jimmy Webb

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean…

— David Longstreth

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody…

— Chester Bennington

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

— David Crosby

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

— Maren Morris

I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these little lives…

— Missy Mazzoli

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

— Richie Sambora

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

— Melissa Etheridge