Delivery Quote by Alex Turner

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether…

— Alex Turner

There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.

— Kurt Elling

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

— Jakob Dylan

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

— John Legend

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to…

— Beth Moore

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

— Brian Fallon

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

— Christine Lavin