Bars Quote by Bryan Hayes

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later…

— Alvin Lee

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

— Siobhan Fahey

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

— Randy Houser

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

— Rex Orange County

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

— Rokia Traore

As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody's song, and through learning all those songs I learned…

— Scott Storch

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were…

— Wayne Kramer

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at…

— Russell Crowe

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change…

— Neil Diamond

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

— Johnny Rivers

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift