Benji Hughes Quotes

I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I write songs every day, 14 times a day.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.