Songwriting Quotes
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When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
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I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.
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Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.
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Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up my horizons for what songwriting was and what singers I could listen to.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
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I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
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I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
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Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.
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What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
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I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.
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Songwriting is such a sensitive energy. It's just a vibration of frequencies.
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I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.
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I have the same way of approaching songwriting and singing. It's always been about the pure love of music. I've always had an interest in production and arranging.
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Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.
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Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
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I blame it never taking a break on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.
