If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else. — Five for Fighting Copy Share Image
When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human. — John Grant Copy Share Image
“Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's. — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. — Kristin Hersh Copy Share Image
As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the… — Kelly Price Copy Share Image
I feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
We decided to self-title it '5 Seconds of Summer' because it really represents who we are and who we want to be… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I still only play by ear. I don't have any training. But the piano actually makes more sense to me than guitar,… — Amber Rubarth Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and… — Borns Copy Share Image
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded… — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
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