I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to write from an honest place, because if I don't do that, I'll just end up writing… — Griff Copy Share Image
I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so… — Stefflon Don Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found… — Jimmy Chamberlin 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
People wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. Was I still recording? Was I touring? Was I putting… — John Waite Copy Share Image
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics,… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people think that I'm a humorist or comedy songwriter. I will never take offence, but I think… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
I just feel like, unfortunately, I'm a person that has to be creative to live. Whether that's, like, painting or making sculptures… — Hunx Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I don't like the word "happy." I wouldn't want to use it that context. I enjoy writing songs, it's a really good… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing… — Adele Copy Share Image
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it… — Hal David Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
