Down and Quote by Bob Dylan

Before you came I used to hear our song and it never ment anything, but now evertime I hear it....all I can think about…

— Ana

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about…

— Banks

I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had…

— Benji Madden

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

— Mary Hunter Austin

I was singing before I could talk.

— Shelby Lynne

But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by…

— Sarah Dessen

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo…

— Petra Haden

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

— Leonard Cohen

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

— James Taylor

I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had…

— Neil Diamond

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was…

— Etta James

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could…

— Joey Badass