Chance Quote by Amanda Shires

Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow…

— Corey Harris

You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're…

— John Prine

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change…

— Teddy Geiger

I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another,…

— Nick Cave

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

You're just playing the songs over and over again and you maybe lose sight of the writing side of you. You're not just a…

— Ellie Rowsell

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

— Richard Marx

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

— Adele

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale