It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for. — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal.… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember. — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
People wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. Was I still recording? Was I touring? Was I putting… — John Waite Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the… — Joe King Copy Share Image
It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
“The drinking dens are spilling out There's staggering in the square There's lads and lasses falling about And a crackling in the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day.… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do,… — Reuben Morgan Copy Share Image
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed. — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
I had been writing songs from the age of 7 or 8 years old, and they were so bad. But it was… — Raye Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I just did it independently forever. I just kept writing songs, putting them out myself, upload them to YouTube, it started to… — Jelly Roll Copy Share Image
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
