Writing songs Quotes · Page 3

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

— Tom Walker

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

— Nate Ruess

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

You never hear of Artist writing songs about how Happy it is to be someone's best friend...

— Stanley Johnston

Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs.

— Bill Ward

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

— Corey Smith

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing…

— R. Kelly

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or…

— Chesney Hawkes

I remember when I was 10-years old I was at that proverbial fork in the road and I was acting as much…

— Alanis Morissette

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

— Kris Kristofferson

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one,…

— Chris Isaak

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I…

— Pixie Lott

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of…

— Christian Kane

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental…

— Leslie Bricusse

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's…

— Joan Baez

I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no…

— Jack Garratt

My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written…

— David Crosby

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own…

— Afrojack

I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or…

— Lzzy Hale

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as…

— Bob Dylan

I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was…

— Aubrie Sellers

Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we…

— Fab Moretti

One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do,…

— Reuben Morgan

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

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

— Matthew Koma

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

— Rick Springfield

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

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

— Dennis DeYoung

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

— Natalia Lafourcade

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

— Elliott Smith

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

— Stephen Sondheim

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

— Jelly Roll

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

— Taylor Momsen

I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

— Curtis Mayfield

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

— Marian McPartland

Writing songs is a solo activity, so, if I put my mind to it, I can do it.

— Joe Hisaishi

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

— Lewis Capaldi