Quotes About Songwriting

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

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

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

I Want To Hold Your Hand' 'I Saw Her Standing There' Voice leading in the Plagal cadence Here is a summary of the action in a IV–I change (in the key of C), highlighting the important 'inner' voice leading.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

Ideias pra músicas. Anotações aleatórias. Coisa que vão se tornar músicas. Coisas sobre as quais talvez eu escreva algum dia, ou que comecei mas não terminei porque não eram suficientes. Se uma música for feita pra durar, a carregamos conosco.

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

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.

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes together and I could hear what I wanted the songs to sound like, I just didn't know how to express it.

The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was about the postman walking up the garden whistling my song. I wasn't trying to conquer the world.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

In the mid- to late '70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.