Songwriting Quotes


You hear a group of players that love music and love to play for the ultimate fun in music, which is the conversation with one another. The experimentation is really what's healthy about it. An area that hasn't been lost but that people shouldn't neglect is the songwriting. - Billy Payne



With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. - Alanis Morissette



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. - Carrie Brownstein



With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. - Helen Slater



Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better. - Andy Partridge



When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. - Sheryl Crow



When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. - Dave Grohl



What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. - Pete Townshend



Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective. - Adam Rich



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