Writing songs Quotes · Page 8

You never hear of Artist writing songs about how Happy it is to be someone's best friend...

— Stanley Johnston

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

— Andrew Bird

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

— Greg Graffin

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add…

— Jackson Browne

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough…

— Lucinda Williams

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be…

— Matt Nathanson

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

— Becky G

I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

— Sam Smith

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most…

— Conor Oberst

I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and…

— Kyle

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period…

— Sheryl Crow

It's not like I'm writing full songs or full parts and setting it aside for Slash because, generally, I like him to…

— Myles Kennedy

I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to…

— Sixto Rodriguez

When we were writing songs for the Eagles, Don Henley would be involved in some new love relationship, and he was always…

— Don Felder

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head,…

— Neil Young

I have no choice in what direction my music goes, honestly, as all I get is what I'm given. I start writing…

— Amanda Shires

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

— John Congleton

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

— Moddi

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've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap…

— Kid Rock

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,…

— Ric Ocasek

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out…

— John Cale

“If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can…

— Jennifer Echols

My moms friend,'' Are playin' games? 'Cause pill bottles don't go missing for nothing.'' Me: Are you fuckin' serious? Blaming me? Your…

— Jasmine Laura

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other…

— Anonymous

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

— Jack Kerouac

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

— Gin Wigmore

“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

It feels incredible to find the type of love I've been writing songs about all these years!

— Jimmie Allen

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing…

— Mick Hucknall

I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what…

— Aubrie Sellers

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

— Maggie Rogers

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we…

— Tommy Rettig

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

— Shania Twain

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an…

— Lorde

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making…

— James Mercer

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

— Phillip Phillips