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Songwriting Quotes

1.
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
Tom Petty

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2.
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand

3.
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.
Laura Marling

4.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
Alex Kapranos

5.
I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney

6.
I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.
John Prine

7.
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.
Juan Gabriel

8.
If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Guy Clark

9.
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
Townes Van Zandt

10.
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.
Mick Jagger

11.
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond

12.
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

13.
Songwriting is my gift from God
Smokey Robinson

14.
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Alan Jay Lerner

15.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.
John Lennon

16.
All is fair in love and songwriting.
Norah Jones

17.
The secret of a great melody is a secret.
Dave Brubeck

18.
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
David Bowie

19.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
James Taylor

20.
I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
Michael Bolton

21.
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

22.
Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.
Glen Hansard

23.
Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].
Halsey

24.
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
Todd Snider

25.
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
Paul Simon

26.
Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.
Tori Kelly

27.
Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.
Billy Joe Shaver

28.
I don't like to dwell on the past.
Tina Turner

29.
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
Elvis Costello

30.
Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.
Coeur de pirate

31.
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

32.
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
Krist Novoselic

33.
Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia

34.
I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.
Troye Sivan

35.
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
Patsy Cline

36.
I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.
Alex Turner

37.
I don't think you can ever please all audiences.
Karan Johar

38.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
Flume

39.
It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'
Alison Krauss

40.
Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.
Scout Niblett

41.
I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia

42.
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
Norah Jones

43.
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
Jo Stafford

44.
Songwriting's a weird game.
Keith Richards

45.
I don't enjoy songwriting.
Rod Stewart

46.
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
Dave Grohl

47.
The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
Brian Setzer

48.
Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
Tom T. Hall

49.
A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
Lenny Kravitz

50.
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
Barry Mann