Taryn Manning Quotes

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

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.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

I've always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that, in those early years, I let everyone do it for me. To be honest, I was a little lazy!

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

Songwriters, we're always looking for new concepts, fresh concepts, and there are only so many ways you can talk about partying, really.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

We wrote 'Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.