Ideas Quote by Boots Riley

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

— Van Morrison

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

— Terry Brooks

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything.

— Maggie Rogers

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson