Always Quote by Benji Madden

In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to…

— Benji Madden

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for…

— Shelby Lynne

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making…

— Scott McClanahan

As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me…

— Jennifer Egan

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart…

— Tim Gane

It just takes that one artist to take the chance to create the next wave of popular music.

— Sky Blu

Labels and people didn't know if i could write original music or anything.

— Gabby Barrett

When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting…

— Brian McKnight

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

— Benmont Tench

I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the tradition of…

— David Berman

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the…

— Keren Ann