Writing songs Quotes · Page 5

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

— Darren Criss

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

— Alanis Morissette

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

— Fiona Apple

Writing songs, making music, and singing is important to me, and I do all three.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

— Shannon Hoon

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

— Paul McCartney

Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.

— John Prine

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

— Taylor Momsen

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

— Billy Joel

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I…

— Pixie Lott

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free…

— Keanu Reeves

I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of…

— Christian Kane

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

— Tom Waits

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental…

— Leslie Bricusse

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because…

— Gary Numan

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it…

— Hal David

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are…

— Amanda Palmer

Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be…

— Bryson Tiller

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff…

— James Mercer

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a…

— Murray Head

I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee…

— Kemp Muhl

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own…

— Afrojack

I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap…

— Kid Rock

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out…

— John Cale

“If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can…

— Jennifer Echols

My moms friend,'' Are playin' games? 'Cause pill bottles don't go missing for nothing.'' Me: Are you fuckin' serious? Blaming me? Your…

— Jasmine Laura

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,…

— Ric Ocasek

My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got…

— Danny Jacob

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I…

— Alessia Cara

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit…

— Justin Vernon

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

— Jakob Dylan

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

— Richard Thompson

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

— John Lennon

I started writing songs as character explorations.

— Noah Reid

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

— Katy B

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

— Joshua Radin

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

— Skylar Grey