Jobs Quote by Beth Nielsen Chapman

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

— Laura Marling

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

There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be able to…

— Stephin Merritt

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

— Donovan

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs.…

— Exene Cervenka

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

— Mel Brooks

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit.…

— Bruno Mars

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going…

— Matthew Ramsey

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations…

— Toby Keith

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have…

— Norah Jones

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

— Katey Sagal