#songwriting

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compliment #exactly #fan #filmmaker #frustrated

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting. ↗

— Ken Hill

#important #important aspect #location #songwriting #very

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars. ↗

— Benjamin Orr

#felt #fight #i #increased #more

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me. ↗

— Christina Westover

#anger #blame #burn #christina-westover #enemies

If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you ↗

— Criss Jami

#confusion #love #lyrics #musician #poet

Songwriting's a weird game. ↗

— Keith Richards

#songwriting #weird

I don't enjoy songwriting. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#i #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

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#hardest #i #i do #part #performing

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