Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music. — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two. — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
I started writing songs on my own and trying to push myself in that way, and then I stumbled into it being… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and -… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet. — Tom Conti Copy Share Image
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover. — Shakira Copy Share Image
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I basically make my living writing songs, so I've been able to go around in my trailer. If I got tired of… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, I saw an opportunity to forge new ground and focus on songwriting. Not many people were… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of… — Ari Hest Copy Share Image
And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing… — Jonathan Coulton Copy Share Image
I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be… — Maluma Copy Share Image
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people. — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing. — Jann Klose Copy Share Image
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives. — Prodigy Copy Share Image
You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12. — Montaigne Copy Share Image
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