Writing songs Quotes · Page 8

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've…

— Chris Carmack

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

— Noel Gallagher

I'm constantly writing songs to show people that it's okay to be a work in progress.

— Jelly Roll

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I…

— Luke Bryan

I've been writing songs ever since I can remember. As I was in fetal position, I was etching songs into my mom's…

— Skrillex

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original…

— Billy Joel

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts…

— Johnny Flynn

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

— K. Flay

I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some…

— Paula Abdul

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 should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of…

— Beth Hart

I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so…

— Stefflon Don

When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was…

— Washed Out

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

— Chad Smith

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as…

— Henry Rollins

I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but…

— David Pajo

Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11…

— Gustavo Santaolalla

“A lot of her songs were to do with Blake, which did not escape Mark’s attention. She told Mark that writing songs…

— Mitch Winehouse

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein…

— Ketch Secor

I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the…

— Miranda Lambert

Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what…

— Jason Mraz

I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously…

— St. Lucia

I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals,…

— Kina Grannis

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I…

— Smokey Robinson

You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and…

— George Ezra

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording…

— Tom Scholz

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

— Toby Keith

I started writing songs at 14 about things I was living at school, and the things I felt at that age.

— Natalia Lafourcade

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce…

— Graham Parker

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing…

— Olivia Merilahti

It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

All I can really do is work hard because I love working hard and I love writing songs.

— Matthew Koma

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

— Wayne Static

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

— Limahl

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary…

— Ryan Tedder

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word…

— Steve Earle

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

We know how fickle the music industry is and that you have to focus on the things you can control-writing songs and…

— Tony Kanal

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer