Inspirational Quote by Colin Linden

I don't write songs.

— John Corbett

I don't write songs, songs write me.

— Sammy Cahn

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

— Ryan Hurd

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

— Bob Dylan

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

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

— Iwan Rheon

Actually think anybody ever approaches writing any song, I think the song approaches them, truth be told. Usually what happens is that a song…

— Jon Fratelli

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

— Billy Burke

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits