Writing songs Quotes · Page 6

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

— Bo Burnham

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

— Tyler Childers

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

— Mike McCready

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce…

— Graham Parker

I started writing songs at 14 about things I was living at school, and the things I felt at that age.

— Natalia Lafourcade

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

— Toby Keith

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording…

— Tom Scholz

You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and…

— George Ezra

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I…

— Smokey Robinson

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary…

— Ryan Tedder

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word…

— Steve Earle

I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me…

— Roxanne Emery

My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's…

— Chris Young

Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them,…

— Joe Walsh

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't…

— Tila Tequila

I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them…

— Kevin Drew

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the…

— Tove Lo

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward…

— Luke Bryan

I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously…

— St. Lucia

I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the…

— Miranda Lambert

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein…

— Ketch Secor

Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what…

— Jason Mraz

“A lot of her songs were to do with Blake, which did not escape Mark’s attention. She told Mark that writing songs…

— Mitch Winehouse

Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11…

— Gustavo Santaolalla

I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals,…

— Kina Grannis

“These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems…

— Taylor Swift

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

All I can really do is work hard because I love working hard and I love writing songs.

— Matthew Koma

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

— Limahl

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

— Wayne Static

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing…

— Olivia Merilahti

It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of…

— Christian Kane

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

— Tom Waits

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental…

— Leslie Bricusse

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log…

— Chath Piersath

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I…

— Pixie Lott

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

— Billy Joel