End Quote by Chris Stapleton

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

— Leon Russell

You don't have to work with everybody and be on songs with everybody just to make it.

— Rich the Kid

You know how you have that one thing you would do even if you're not getting paid to do it? That's what writing music…

— Kandi Burruss

I can't hire other people to write songs for me. I have to write them myself.

— Shakira

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

— Jimmy Webb

There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have…

— Jimmy Scott

It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write…

— Linda Perry

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

— Dan Bejar

People started recording my songs. Later, I was offered songwriter contracts. And then, finally, I could take the time to work on my own…

— Kim Petras

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

— Terry Bozzio