#songwriting

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#best #bits #comes #creative #down

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. ↗

— Criss Jami

#connection #humanity #inspirational #life #music

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

— Jimmy Buffett

#music #song #songwriting #music

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

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

— Janine Turner

#applied #i #never #poetry #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

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#because #changes #clever #complex #deceptively

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