Forever Quote by Cary Ann Hearst

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like…

— Johnny Cash

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack

If I had enough time I could easily write three to four songs a day, but, just keeping up, I don't have enough free…

— Susan Tedeschi

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

— Mark Lanegan

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

— John Philip Sousa

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

— Leonard Cohen

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

— Mary Gauthier

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

— Frankie Cosmos

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to…

— Maren Morris

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

— Kevin Parker

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

— Alanis Morissette