Ideas Quote by Barry Gibb

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote…

— Johnny Cash

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

— John Phillips

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

— Colin Linden

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

— Ryan Hurd

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain…

— William Beckett

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it,…

— Bea Miller

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

— Iwan Rheon

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard