#songwriting

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. ↗

— Amy Ray

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Songwriting is my gift from God. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

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Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing. ↗

— Jo Stafford

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My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. ↗

— James Taylor

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It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have. ↗

— Mick Taylor

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