#songwriting

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. ↗

— Janine Turner

#applied #i #never #poetry #songwriting

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. ↗

— Tom Waits

#go #learn #listening #made #make

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. ↗

— Jack White

#consider #down #hip-hop #i #instruments

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#hand #like #listener #songwriting

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have. ↗

— Ben Harper

#closer #craft #doing #ever #feel

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe. ↗

— Neko Case

#i #i think #little #maybe #might

All is fair in love and songwriting. ↗

— Norah Jones

#love #songwriting

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#back #come #daughter #did #i

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#me #new #pretty #singing #songwriting

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. ↗

— Liz Phair

#collaborating #difficult #fact #i #independence