Song Quote by Ben Gibbard

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write…

— Jon Foreman

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the…

— Lyle Lovett

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will…

— Paul McCartney

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel…

— Mick Jagger

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White

I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that…

— Macklemore

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

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

The first time you hear a song you might not remember the words, but you can go to the record store and hum the…

— James Ingram

You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can…

— Sevyn Streeter

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and…

— Tom Petty