Fortunate Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few…

— Jimi Hendrix

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening…

— Steven Wright

I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff…

— Miles Davis

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or…

— Eric Whitacre

I went through a bad period where I was just not writing; I couldn't create anything. I was out of ideas. But when I…

— Allan Holdsworth

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say…

— Charli XCX

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

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing…

— Lana Del Rey

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

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I…

— Frank Ocean

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other…

— Alanis Morissette