#songwriting

Guy struck a jangling chord on the keyboards and then another. 'You know,' he announced, sitting back and crossing his arms. 'We need some new material. We’ve got to write some new songs.' 'Like what?' He shrugged. 'I don’t know. Throw out some ideas.' 'Love! Death! Existential struggle!' Emily intoned dramatically, rattling out a drumroll. 'Agriculture! ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sweet-valley #death

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been ↗

— Criss Jami

#cliche #discovery #great-men #greatness #journey

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. ↗

— Kate Bush

#because #choosing #dancing #devoting #going

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting. ↗

— Ken Hill

#important #important aspect #location #songwriting #very

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. ↗

— Neil Innes

#goes #gorilla #i #mean #our

Isolation is a big part of songwriting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#isolation #part #songwriting

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#create #inspiration #motivation #music #musician

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars. ↗

— Benjamin Orr

#felt #fight #i #increased #more

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#creatively #me #opposite #other #out