Facts Quote by Christopher Owens

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something…

— Thomas Mars

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing songs, they…

— Mick Hucknall

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself…

— Warren Haynes

I don't really write songs anymore.

— Justin Vernon

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during…

— Tom Waits

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet…

— Jimmy Cliff

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

— Paul Rodgers

A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one.

— Mary Gauthier

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke