Songwriting Quotes

Songwriting Quote of the day

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I don't work at being ordinary.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

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.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

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.

Songwriting is my gift from God

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

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.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.