Quotes and Sayings About Songwriting

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
-- Adam Kluger

#College #Program #Songwriting

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

#Writing #Way #Songwriting

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Live Life #Writing #Songwriting

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
-- Alberta Hunter

#Faith In God #Songwriting #Confidence In Yourself

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

#Editing #Creative #Songwriting

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

#Song #Songwriting #Heard

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
-- Amos Lee

#Songwriting

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
-- Amos Lee

#Real #Songwriting

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.
-- Arda Collins

#Writing #Important #Songwriting

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

#Successful #Songwriting #Ability

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
-- Betty Carter

#Want #Songwriting

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

#Songwriting #Psychiatrist

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

#Style #Together #Songwriting

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

#Desire #Songwriting

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
-- Brian Molko

#Writing #Honest #Songwriting

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

#Songwriting

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to,
-- Brittany Howard

#Talking #Songwriting #Talking To Yourself

It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.
-- Chris Hesse

#Playing Music #Songwriting

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

#Writing #Secret #Songwriting

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.
-- Ester Dean

#Done #Songwriting

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
-- George Frideric Handel

#Music #Body #Songwriting

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

#Singing #Songwriting #Wells

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

#Song #Songwriting

It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Mean #Sync #Songwriting

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

#Pretending #Songwriting

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
-- James Taylor

#Mysterious #Process #Songwriting

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
-- Jane Wiedlin

#Song #Songwriting

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

#Song #Writing #Songwriting

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

#Art #Confused #Songwriting

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

#Demon #Songwriting