Always Quote by Chris Stapleton

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

— Maggie Rogers

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a…

— Chris Stapleton

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I…

— Lorne Balfe

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was…

— Regina Spektor

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I went to college to make music and study music.

— Lari White

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while,…

— John Oates

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I…

— Kaskade

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of…

— P. J. Harvey

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

— Dan Fogelberg