Driven Quote by Billy Gibbons

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define…

— Serj Tankian

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

— Kip Moore

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

— Robert Plant

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding…

— Jon Foreman

When you have done a lot of good work, there comes a point when you want to utilise the experience you have garnered to…

— KK

I mean every song comes from an experience to an extent.

— Ruel

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I…

— Dave Matthews

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience…

— Mark Stoermer

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

— Amos Lee

There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach…

— Graham Nash