Writing songs Quotes

I really, really like writing songs.

— Debbie Harry

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

— Mel Brooks

I love writing songs.

— Sade Adu

I started writing songs when I was eight.

— Wiz Khalifa

I just love writing songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I don't write songs, songs write me.

— Sammy Cahn

That's what my life is, writing songs.

— John Cale

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

— Brent Smith

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

— Ruston Kelly

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.

— Isaac Hanson

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

— Bob Dylan

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

— Jeff Bridges

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

— Jeff Bridges

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other…

— Anonymous

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

— Gin Wigmore

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

— Jack Kerouac

It feels incredible to find the type of love I've been writing songs about all these years!

— Jimmie Allen

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough…

— Lucinda Williams

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

— Greg Graffin

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to…

— Nadia Ali

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some…

— Will Oldham

I think it's so important to write from an honest place, because if I don't do that, I'll just end up writing…

— Griff

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only…

— Jeff Tweedy

I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you…

— Angus Young

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs,…

— Frank Ocean

I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is…

— Max Tundra

My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of…

— Billy Gibbons

Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a…

— Carla Bruni

I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love -…

— Gary Lightbody

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I…

— Nicholson Baker

My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written…

— David Crosby

The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not…

— Tamaryn

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and…

— Andrew Peterson

I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when…

— Joshua Radin

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,…

— Grace Kelly