You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write…

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano…

— Trey Parker

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit…

— Paul McCartney

When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.

— Eric Roberson

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

— Donald Miller

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to…

— Taylor Swift

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to…

— Taylor Swift

“Each word... each paragraph... each page I write gets me one step closer to my dream.”

— Elizabeth Paradise

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing…

— Julia Cameron

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

— D.E.M. Emrys

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

— Neneh Cherry

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

— Sherman Alexie

You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only…

— Irving Berlin

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

— Miranda Lambert

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins