Quotes About Songwriting

Songwriting is a difficult thing, but it's not so bad when you remove the barriers you put up yourself.

Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.

I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.

All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.

Our third album, 'Grown.' On that album, some of us had the opportunity to have hands-on experience into songwriting and production. The project itself taught the members how to create an album ourselves while grabbing guidance from the producers we worked with.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.

Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.

When it comes to songwriting, I grew up in the Seventies listening to AM radio. So I've all these pop songs running through my head from Paul McCartney and Elton John, and a lot of stuff that was written on piano.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

When Eric Clapton cut 'After Midnight,' he sold so many records and it was so big at the time, I decided that I would pursue the songwriting thing. I was 34 years old at that time. I'd been down the pike and back before I had any success at all.

It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.

The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to music' And we did that.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may be in a similar situation.

My favorite way to get into the songwriting process is to get into the studio, and then usually, they play a loop of four chords, or something, or guitar, and then I just start singing.

Songwriting can get pretty heavy and personal for me and I like being able to explore different emotions that are not necessarily my own.

To try and learn how to be a singer, a really good guitar player, a really good pianist, it's always lagged a bit behind learning to be the best songwriter I could possibly be because songwriting comes naturally to me.

I enjoy acting because it is very different to songwriting and it allows me to flex a different creative muscle.

But especially in America when you've got four people in a room and they do a songwriting day, well one of them might literally just come up with one line but they get 25% of the song.

I've been listening to Stapleton for a long time. He's a hometown guy. I remember when I first heard word of him down there: songwriting and hearing those demos that were used for his publishing house and when he started Steeldrivers.

George felt the group wasn't giving him the freedom he needed to develop his songwriting. But I have to admit the end came a little sooner than I expected.

Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated; you can elaborate and pinpoint special things a little clearer.