I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my…

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me.…

— Lightnin' Hopkins

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But…

— Harry Chapin

So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the…

— Danny Denzongpa

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my…

— James Taylor

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 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

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

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

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