Anything Quote by Darius Rucker

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of…

— Ian Anderson

There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and…

— M.I.A

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want…

— Tyler Joseph

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out…

— Jason Isbell

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

— Tom Kitt

I like to write songs that people can identify with and sing along to.

— Jay Sean

I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing…

— Lou Reed

The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it. And songs that I love…

— Matty Healy

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

— Glen Hansard

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay