Writing songs Quotes · Page 10

Gimmicks? I don't have one. I'm not good-looking. Not skinny. Not anything. I just like writing songs.

— Uncle Kracker

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

— John Lennon

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested…

— Danielle Bradbery

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing…

— Mohit Chauhan

Taylor Goldsmith and I hit it off big time, and so we started writing some songs together.

— Chris Sullivan

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

— Richard Hawley

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,…

— Caleb Landry Jones

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and…

— Luke James

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly…

— Randy Newman

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses…

— Judd Apatow

It was from the Nina Simone song 'Four Women,' and at the end of the song she sings 'peaches,' and the way…

— Peaches

After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder that this has…

— Dan Smith

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals…

— Ariana Grande

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

— Benjamin Booker

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

— Jamie Hince

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

— Henry Mancini

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say…

— Shooter Jennings

It is a humbling experience when you travel around and you meet people all over the world and I take all that…

— Ryan Bingham

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

— Shawn Mendes

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible,…

— Dan Hill

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records…

— Ray Stevens

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part…

— Chris Stapleton

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip…

— Hoodie Allen

I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.

— Montaigne

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you…

— Maggie Stiefvater

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

— Prodigy

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

— Diane Warren

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself,…

— Bridgit Mendler

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to…

— Pete Seeger

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to…

— Chad Gilbert

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear…

— Dave Grohl

It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.

— Eliot Sumner

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not…

— Frankie Cosmos

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

— Ed Sheeran