#songwriting

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

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#am #coffee #day #favorite #first

And I look forward to the time when I can become more indulgent with my songwriting. But this band is a family, and it's a process that we have to grow with together. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#become #family #forward #grow #i

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

— Dave Grohl

#hand #like #listener #songwriting

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#background #be nice #deny #different #i

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. ↗

— David Friedman

#heart #laying #me #most #out

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#intrigues #me #song #song structure #songwriting

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#comes #experimental #hardcore #involved #mental nature

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

Songwriting is my gift from God. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#god #songwriting