#songwriting

I don't enjoy songwriting. ↗

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

#different way #guitar #itself #lends #looking

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

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

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#dent #huge #i #i think #mtv

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#fantastic #i #just #just do it #like

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. ↗