Writing songs Quotes · Page 4

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

— John Lennon

I started writing songs as character explorations.

— Noah Reid

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

— Katy B

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

— Tracy Chapman

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

— Joshua Radin

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

— Skylar Grey

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I had been writing songs from the age of 7 or 8 years old, and they were so bad. But it was…

— Raye

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life,…

— Lenny Kravitz

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing…

— Jacob Anderson

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative…

— Sam Hunt

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 spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

We know how fickle the music industry is and that you have to focus on the things you can control-writing songs and…

— Tony Kanal

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the…

— Ruston Kelly

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to…

— Ani DiFranco

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was…

— Paul Weller

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We…

— George Gershwin

It was from the Nina Simone song 'Four Women,' and at the end of the song she sings 'peaches,' and the way…

— Peaches

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses…

— Judd Apatow

After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder that this has…

— Dan Smith

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly…

— Randy Newman

Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a…

— Carla Bruni

I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love -…

— Gary Lightbody

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I…

— Nicholson Baker

My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written…

— David Crosby

The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not…

— Tamaryn

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and…

— Andrew Peterson

It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I…

— Graham Colton

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 really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

— Shannon Hoon

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

— Paul McCartney

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

— Fiona Apple

Writing songs, making music, and singing is important to me, and I do all three.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.

— John Prine

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

— Taylor Momsen

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

— Richard Thompson