Song Writing Quotes
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Song Writing Quotes & Sayings
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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!
— Avijeet Das
Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves
— Bill Anderson
Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
— Elvis Costello
I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.
— Madonna Ciccone
I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
— John Hiatt
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
— Tom Lehrer
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about ...
— Paul McCartney
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
— Joe Satriani
To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.
— Eric Hutchinson
The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
— Matt Berninger
I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
— Stephan Jenkins
I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.
— Hamilton Leithauser
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
— Joni Mitchell
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
— Mick Jagger
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
— Kacey Musgraves
It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.
— Albert Hammond Jr.
If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
— Neil Young
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.
— Brett Dennen
I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
— Phillip Phillips
We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.
— Dorianne Laux
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
— Bruno Mars
I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
— Colin Hay
I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.
— Marc Almond
I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
— Tracy Chapman
It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.
— Avril Lavigne
It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.
— Toby Lightman
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
— Chad Kroeger
It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
— Andy Biersack
I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
— Erica Sehyun Song
If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.
— Tim Hughes
Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.
— Sharen Song
Be a great writer when you write your life's song.
— Debasish Mridha
People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
— Cass McCombs
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
— Alice Walker
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
— Mick Barr
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.
— Tristan Prettyman
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
— Shane MacGowan
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
— James Dean Bradfield
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.
— Ronnie Van Zant
I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.
— Jamie Lynn Spears
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
— Paul McCartney
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.
— Daniel Johnston
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
— David Friedman
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
— Kristian Bush
You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube?
— M. Leighton
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
— Angel Olsen
If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
— Shirley Manson
I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
— Adam Schlesinger
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
— Elvis Costello
I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.
— Dan Bejar
Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.
— Nolan Sotillo
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
— John Lydon
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.
— Jillian Hervey
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
— Taylor Swift
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
— Serj Tankian
I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
— Eddie Vedder