Band Quote by Billy Joel

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be…

— Jason Mraz

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career…

— Jerry Jeff Walker

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

— Colbie Caillat

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing…

— Alice Merton

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song,…

— Lights

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which…

— J. J. Cale

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious,…

— Gabrielle Aplin