Written Songs Quotes

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

— Chuck Berry

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

— Camila Cabello

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

— Ella Henderson

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

— Billy Sherwood

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

— Victoria Justice

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

— Taylor Swift

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they…

— Richard Ashcroft

I've never written songs, I've never brought any songs to System, but as far as arranging, I've always had arrangement ideas.

— John Dolmayan

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as…

— Taylor Swift

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot…

— Suzy Bogguss

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe…

— Rufus Wainwright

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore...…

— Mick Ralphs

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't…

— Emily Haines

It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when…

— George Michael

The thing that separates Sophie from the music I do for other people is that it's 100% written by me. In the…

— Sophie

Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my…

— Shane Filan

When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I'd written a few songs specifically about places in America…

— Passenger

The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never…

— Dave Haywood

When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my…

— Brandi Carlile

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

Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want…

— Maren Morris

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but…

— Jens Lekman

I've always written songs from a sad place. I can't think of one good song that I have written in a happy…

— Ty Stone

In the past, I've written my songs and then asked friends if they could record the vocals. I didn't want to use…

— Sophie

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and…

— Ray Davies

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times…

— Stephen Chbosky

I've written songs since the beginning of the 80s.

— Lenny Henry

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

— Matt Skiba

By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again.

— Stephen Schwartz

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.

— Matthew Ramsey

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

— Jeff Ament

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

— Barry Mann

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

— Ray Davies

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

— Mike Gordon