Writing songs Quotes · Page 3

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

— Jon Pardi

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

— Jon Foreman

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

— Gwen Stefani

We're always recording music, writing songs.

— Hope Sandoval

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

— Barry Gibb

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

— Joanna Newsom

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

— Elliott Smith

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

— Phillip Phillips

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an…

— Lorde

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making…

— James Mercer

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

— Craig David

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

— Nina Nesbitt

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we…

— Tommy Rettig

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on…

— Chad Smith

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be…

— Leslie Bricusse

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't…

— John Prine

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's…

— Joan Baez

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other…

— Bonnie McKee

I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no…

— Jack Garratt

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some…

— Dave Grohl

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song…

— Britney Spears

We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam…

— John Petrucci

At the beginning of my career, I saw an opportunity to forge new ground and focus on songwriting. Not many people were…

— Kaskade

It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be…

— Dean Wareham

I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used…

— Beth Ditto

I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When…

— Zella Day

The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it…

— Ryan Jarman

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for…

— Smokey Robinson

I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an…

— Chelsea Wolfe

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

— Rick Springfield

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I've started writing some songs very secretly.

— Monica Barbaro

I didn't really gig my way in. I was just in my bedroom writing songs for so long.

— Dean Lewis

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

— John Mayer

Writing songs is a solo activity, so, if I put my mind to it, I can do it.

— Joe Hisaishi

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

— Lewis Capaldi

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

— Colin Hay