Song Writing Quotes

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

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.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

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

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.