Writing songs Quotes · Page 5

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

— Jakob Dylan

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

— Anne-Marie

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

— Alex Turner

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

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Darren Criss

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Ester Dean

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my…

— Kelly Jones

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it…

— Jon Pardi

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose…

— Alicia Witt

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging…

— Anonymous

Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll…

— Johnny Van Zant

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through…

— Dr. Luke

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this…

— Jaimoe

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,…

— Caleb Landry Jones

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and…

— Luke James

I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in…

— Jenny Lewis

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time…

— Garth Brooks

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in…

— Chris Cornell

I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but…

— David Pajo

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day.…

— Kris Kristofferson

“The drinking dens are spilling out There's staggering in the square There's lads and lasses falling about And a crackling in the…

— Mark Knopfler

One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do,…

— Reuben Morgan

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and…

— John Lennon

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact…

— Kate Voegele

On what inspires her when writing songs: I think everything does. I could be walking in the mall or walking outside. I…

— Ashley Tisdale

I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important…

— Nikka Costa

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

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

— Susan Tedeschi

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

— Tori Amos

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

— Dean Lewis

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

— Lesley Gore

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

— J. J. Cale

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