Songwriting Quotes - Page 2

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

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

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.

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

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.

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

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

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

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

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

Songwriting's a weird game.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

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