Hard Quote by Alexander Chee

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

— Sting

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is…

— Angel Olsen

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

— Noel Coward

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

— Jana Kramer

I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice takes you…

— Patty Griffin

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted…

— Shura

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like…

— Madonna Ciccone

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of…

— Julie Andrews

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

— Rosanne Cash

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted…

— Bob Dylan

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

— Rita Wilson