Writing songs Quotes · Page 4

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

— Alex Turner

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

— Rick Springfield

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

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

— Elliott Smith

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

— Joanna Newsom

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

— Barry Gibb

We're always recording music, writing songs.

— Hope Sandoval

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

— Gwen Stefani

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

— Burning Spear

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that…

— Charlotte Caffey

During the '80s, Nashville didn't believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs.

— Lorrie Morgan

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

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for…

— Smokey Robinson

Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love.

— Becky Hill

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to.…

— Benjamin Booker

Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having…

— Enrique Iglesias

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs.…

— El DeBarge

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is…

— El-P

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original…

— Paul Rodgers

I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was…

— John Prine

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my…

— Gabrielle Aplin

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By…

— Meghan Trainor

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth…

— Paul Zollo

I don't consider myself very principled. As a travelling musician, you have to adapt and adjust to different contexts every day. It…

— Moddi

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs,…

— Benmont Tench

I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always…

— John Congleton

A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often…

— Cheyenne Jackson

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear…

— Lenny Kravitz

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again.…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

— Jon Foreman

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

— Andy Biersack

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

— Jon Pardi

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

— Colin Hay

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

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

— John Mayer

I didn't really gig my way in. I was just in my bedroom writing songs for so long.

— Dean Lewis