Quotes About Songwriting

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

I just see us as songwriters.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting.

The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a mover and shaker of songwriting.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

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

The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

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

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

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.

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we try to do as a band.