Big Quote by Alessia Cara

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few…

— Jimi Hendrix

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way…

— Dan Chaon

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel,…

— John Updike

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff.

— John Waite

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep…

— Roshon Fegan

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really…

— Jonny Lang

Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.

— Rob Halford

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole,…

— Tom Stoppard

I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out…

— Conor O'Brien

When I create lyrics, I just go off of energy. Sometimes I write down my lyrics on my phone and most times I remember…

— Jadakiss