Songwriting Quotes
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Songwriting Quotes & Sayings
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
— Taylor Swift
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
— Tom Stoppard
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
— Krist Novoselic
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
— Meghan Trainor
I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
— Nile Rodgers
Songwriting is my gift from God.
— Smokey Robinson
I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
— Scott Weiland
I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.
— Sharon Van Etten
Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to,
— Brittany Howard
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
— Billy Joel
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
— Tommy Shaw
I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.
— Brenda Russell
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
— Juliana Hatfield
Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.
— Nick Hornby
I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
— Carlos Ponce
Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies
— Steven Tyler
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
— Richie Sambora
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
— Richie Sambora
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
— Dave Mustaine
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
— Charles King
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
— John Lennon
Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.
— Vusi Mahlasela
That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
— Sufjan Stevens
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
— Annie Lennox
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
— Amanda Palmer
I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.
— Ringo Starr
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
— Chrissie Hynde
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
— Sheryl Crow
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
— Zooey Deschanel
It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.
— Mick Taylor
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
— Joe Strummer
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
— Brian Molko
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
— Gary Kemp
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
— Boz Scaggs
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
— Loretta Lynn
I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
— Pete Townshend
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
— Neil Diamond
My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.
— Antoniette Costa
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
— Dave Matthews
I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
— Billy Joel
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
— Paul Simon
No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.
— Gin Wigmore
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
— Gwen Stefani
My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star.
— Shania Twain
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[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.
— Nick Jonas
A song unheard is a song undiscovered.
— Lisa Goldin
I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.
— Travis Morrison
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
— James Taylor
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
— Todd Snider
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
— Taylor Swift
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
— Jakob Dylan
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
— Neil Diamond
I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.
— Ingrid Michaelson
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
— Dustin Lynch
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
— Tracy Chapman
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
— George Frideric Handel