#songwriting

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#creativity #music #songwriting #art

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#music #song #songwriting #music

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#between #line #songwriting #thin

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#artist #because #bells #bells and whistles #big

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#creating #feel #feels #i #like

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. ↗

— Eric Church

#around #come #ideas #just #key

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

— Sheryl Crow

#different way #guitar #itself #lends #looking

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#hardest #i #i do #part #performing

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

#big success #conscious #create #follow #gets