Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 s...

Andrae Crouch

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Martin Gore

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

Pixie Lott

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Tom Conti

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

Talib Kweli

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

Lucinda Williams

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Steele

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Katey Sagal

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

Neil Diamond

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Sheryl Crow

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Lucinda Williams

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Martin Gore

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

Adele

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

Courtney Love

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

Cass McCombs

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Joan Armatrading

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Jarvis Cocker

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Dolly Parton

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Barry Mann

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Bruno Mars