Songwriting Quotes

Songwriting's a weird game.
Keith Richards

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
Dave Mustaine

Guitar, Influence, Metal

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

Nothing, Control, Process

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
Tom Waits

School, Understand, Try

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

Life, Time, Living

I don't enjoy songwriting.
Rod Stewart

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

Good, Personal, Song

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
Joni Mitchell

Waiting, While, Almost

All is fair in love and songwriting.
Norah Jones

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
Eddie Van Halen

Time, Attitude, Young

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

Process, Mysterious, Direct

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
Dave Grohl

Life, Love, Different

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

Music, Great, Inspired

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
Pete Townshend

Music, Character, Father

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

Song, Expression, Structure

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
Joni Mitchell

Great, Girl, Said

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
Norah Jones

Love, Work, Great

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

Hardest, Performing, Easiest

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

Love, Second, Singing

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.
Mark Knopfler

Life, Different, Sometimes

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
Gwen Stefani

Everyone, Brother

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

Time, Best, Through

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.
Carrie Underwood

Music, Respect, Fun

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

Hand, Listener, Extending

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White

Music, Down, Broken

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
Liz Phair

Difficult, Fact, Stuff

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
Jason Mraz

Life, Music, Used

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

Talent, Born, Natural

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
Warren Zevon

Between, Line, Thin

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