Backward Quote by Alicia Keys

I only wanted to play the guitar so I could write music. As soon as I learned my first three chords I wrote my…

— Michelle Zauner

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I…

— Rico Love

As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody's song, and through learning all those songs I learned…

— Scott Storch

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch…

— Mat Kearney

I would type in things like, 'How to play beginner songs on guitar,' and one of the first I learnt was 'Hey, Soul Sister'…

— Shawn Mendes

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

— Taylor Swift

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a…

— Ro James

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

— Bruno Mars

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there. When I…

— Declan McKenna

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in…

— John Gourley