Writing songs Quotes · Page 3

I really didn't like anything the way I liked playing music and writing songs.

— Tyler Childers

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

— Bo Burnham

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

— Jerry Harrison

I've been writing songs on my own since I was 13, and the same is true of Derek.

— Susan Tedeschi

I'll probably continue writing songs about New York until I die.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

— Ester Dean

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale

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

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

I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

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

I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure.

— John Waite

Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really…

— Sigrid

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

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out,…

— Tim Minchin

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process…

— Alan Menken

I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I…

— Luke Combs

I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed…

— Bryson Tiller

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I…

— Ian Axel

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and…

— Jim Cole

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting…

— Dave Malloy

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my…

— P. J. Harvey

When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the…

— Joe King

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I…

— Alessia Cara

My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got…

— Danny Jacob

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,…

— Ric Ocasek

My moms friend,'' Are playin' games? 'Cause pill bottles don't go missing for nothing.'' Me: Are you fuckin' serious? Blaming me? Your…

— Jasmine Laura

“If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can…

— Jennifer Echols

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out…

— John Cale

I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap…

— Kid Rock

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

— Lesley Gore

I was writing songs in my room for like six year, not showing anyone.

— Dean Lewis

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

— Tori Amos

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

— Alanis Morissette

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

— Darren Criss

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

— Mark Hoppus

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

— Anne-Marie