Writing songs Quotes · Page 11

I like writing songs. I like the camaraderie of it and I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free…

— Keanu Reeves

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs…

— David Pajo

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

— Courtney Love

I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.

— Jens Lekman

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

— Linda Perry

“I spent the winter writing songs about getting better And if I'm being honest, I'm getting there”

— The Wonder Years

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman

Gimmicks? I don't have one. I'm not good-looking. Not skinny. Not anything. I just like writing songs.

— Uncle Kracker

I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing…

— Jack Garratt

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff…

— James Mercer

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a…

— Murray Head

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because…

— Gary Numan

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it…

— Hal David

Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be…

— Bryson Tiller

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are…

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Aubrie Sellers

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested…

— Danielle Bradbery

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

— John Lennon

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

— Lou Barlow

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in…

— Jake Shears

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

— Roisin Murphy

Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own…

— Billie Eilish

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals…

— Ariana Grande

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

— Benjamin Booker

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

— Richard Hawley

Taylor Goldsmith and I hit it off big time, and so we started writing some songs together.

— Chris Sullivan

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing…

— Mohit Chauhan

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

— Jonas Blue

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

Writing songs about how I feel has always been easy and fun for me, and I think the business side of music…

— Olivia Rodrigo

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My…

— Shel Silverstein

Listening to music is like the best thing in the world, but writing those songs makes my feelings come out

— Shar-rae

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and…

— Jakob Dylan

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything.…

— Harry Styles

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with…

— Benmont Tench

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

— Kate Pierson

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out…

— Isaac Brock

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really…

— Domino Kirke

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of…

— Pedro Capo