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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
I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.
— Neil Finn
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
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
— Townes Van Zandt
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
I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
— Carlos Ponce
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
— Warren Zevon
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
I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.
— Jeff Bowen
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
— Gary Kemp
Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.
— Colbie Caillat
I'm fascinated by America ... it's so odd.
— John Prine
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
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
It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.
— Mick Taylor
That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
— Sufjan Stevens
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
— Colin Meloy
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 like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.
— Christopher Owens
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
— Gabrielle Aplin
Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.
— Christina Westover
When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
— Timothy B. Schmit
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
— Sean Lennon
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.
— Conor Oberst
I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
— Banks
Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head
— Michael Jackson
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
— Julian Casablancas
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
— Ed Sheeran
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