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When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

— Juliana Hatfield

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

— Jesse Harris

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

— Keren Ann

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

— John Legend

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

— John Oates

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

— Jose Gonzalez

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

— John Darnielle

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

— Michael Masser

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

— John Scofield

I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.

— Adam Schlesinger

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