194 Songwriting Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner

Poetry Never Written Songwriting Always Applied

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it. Jason Derulo

You Better More Songwriting Get Muscle

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do. Jason Molina

Language Singing About Songwriting Always Believed Needed

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. Jenny Lewis

Music Me Writing Internet Style Took Teenager Month Embodied Stayed Trip Only Cassette Poetry Had Raw Songwriting She Accessible Were Lot Friend Very Thailand Bangkok Found Liz

You always try different versions of yourself through songwriting. It can get a bit annoying to see them walk around and do their thing when you feel like, 'I'm not that person any more.' Jens Lekman

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are. Jermaine Dupri

People Some People See Some Songwriting Know Producer Really Skills

I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums. John Mellencamp

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My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. John Oates

Evolved Songwriting Person Just

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us. Johnny Christ

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting. Josh Turner

Success Time You Business Starts Married Having Songwriting Get Hits Get Married Children Your Less Less Time Growing Start

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

Enjoy Songwriting Improvising

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting. Juliana Hatfield

Duty Kind Some Writer Songwriting True Feel Same Really Honest

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it. Juliana Hatfield

Good Feel Good Church Important Ways About Something Share Songwriting Feel Like Going Rewarding Anyone Really Connecting Need

Once I got into pop songwriting, I was kind of just ready to help other people tell their stories... I'm here to facilitate and structure and grow and make things a little more fabulous and a little more urgent. Justin Tranter

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. Kate Bush

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists. Kate Voegele

Art Natural Writing Guitar Listening King Organic Think Those Out Some Fact Inspired Songs Joni Mitchell Songwriting Mainly Sort Always Mitchell Came Up Very Just Artists James Grew James Taylor Interest Taylor Started Playing

Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most. Kelsea Ballerini

Me Gift Songwriting Most Came Needed

When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15. Kelsea Ballerini

The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between. Kevin Jonas

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I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal. Kim Petras

Become My Number One Songwriting Goal Greats Want Number

I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I've ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever. Kim Petras

Me Whatever Earned Gave Stripes Kind Kinda Write Writer Songwriting Feel Stereotypes Come Like Tracks Been Up Maybe Just Us Working Used Let Us Ever Session

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

Me Singing Pretty Both Songwriting New

Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at. LP

Good Better Stay Songwriting Am Get Trying

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