Had Quote by Anu Malik

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

— Jesse Harris

I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.

— Mannie Fresh

Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

— Enya

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often…

— Susan Hill

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music…

— Bucky Pope

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell

As I'm writing a song, I focus on the music and try not to let my mind wander too much, but if I do…

— Arlo Parks

I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

— Sam Hunt

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

— Kieran Hebden

I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything.…

— Gregg Allman

I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work with.

— Tobias Forge