I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine"…

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way…

— Jon Foreman

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

— Jim Morrison

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young

Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.

— Regina Spektor

I'm no songwriter because all of my popular songs have just been outgrowths of themes for the various pictures.

— Henry Mancini

On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't…

— Johnny Van Zant

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

— Mike Lowry

I bought a Three Dog Night album when I was pretty young, and I remember listening to all those songs. That's just greatly crafted…

— Borns

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't…

— Nick Cave

Songs that are just a vehicle for a guitar solo are very empty, just an excuse for a guitarist to show what scales he…

— Gary Moore

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

— Julien Baker

F.U.B.U.' is one of my favorite songs ever. It just like touches me - I almost like cry when I heard that song.

— Amine

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

— Tori Amos

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a…

— Randy Newman

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

— Jackie DeShannon