“When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.” ThinkingFeelsWritingMomentsHomePainSongTurnsEnjoyDifficultWifeMy FriendsMy WifeSpendingEncountersEnjoy LifeSurfingSpending TimeWriting And Thinking Author:Jon Foreman
“In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.” WayWritingPersonsRealSongThreeReal LifeTattooHappy PersonThree WaysDorky Author:Christina Perri
“I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."” PeopleShouldWritingYearsLooksSaidHappensSongStarsRocksBandSixSevenSongwritingSeven YearsRock StarConcentratingRock Bands Author:Billy Joel
“I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.” WantWritingTryingLittlesEndsRememberSongPunchlines Author:Amy Winehouse
“I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.” KnowsWritingSongBored Author:Amy Winehouse
“Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingSongBedDown AndWork OutPlanes Author:Bruno Mars
“I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.” PeopleWantWritingSongToughThings To DoTough Things Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.” WritingDreamLastsSongRiversOriginalsAlbumsTunesWriting SongsWriting Music Author:Billy Joel
“I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.” WritingSongPower Of WordsTornTorn Apart Author:Kurt Cobain
“I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldWritingBookPlaySeemsBeautifulMovingSongNextActorsNaturalLevelsWrittenExpressionDistrustSuspiciousWriting A BookMisguidedNext LevelNatural ThingsBeautiful Love Author:Elvis Costello
“The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.” KnowsWritingSong Author:Bob Dylan
“I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.” WritingI CanSongMemoriesAliveCapture Author:Dolly Parton
“I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.” ThinkingWritingLooksSometimesSongPiecesReturnSentencesRhythmBridgesVersesInfrastructureChorusCadence Author:Mitch Albom
“When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.” PeopleIfsWritingPersonsIdeasSongEasyCan DoFive Author:Jason Mraz
“To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.” WritingSongHalfAlbumsRubbish Author:Jason Mraz
“Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWritingMeanSongPaintingMusic IsImaginaryCanvasAmazing Things Author:Lou Reed
“Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainSongBrainFindingsPianoStrongestCollaborationBetter Than YouCombiningPlaying Piano Author:Charlyne Yi