Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing… — Passenger Copy Share Image
I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances. — Matt Hammitt Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I… — Angela Aki Copy Share Image
When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you're writing a book, it's a very insular process that's very… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
During the '80s, Nashville didn't believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work. — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love. — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I started singing when I was 8, and then when I was 11, I started writing my first songs. — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try… — Lamont Dozier Copy Share Image
I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure. — John Waite Copy Share Image
I'm just writing songs to process what's going on, whether in my personal life or in my perception of the world. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God. — Tim Hughes Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image