Away from you Quote by Dave Matthews

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

— Tom T. Hall

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

— Brian Wilson

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.

— Sam Roberts

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they…

— Mike Gordon

I've written hundreds of songs, and I tend to think that my instincts are pretty good when it comes to what people are going…

— Mark Foster

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

Once you have a hit song and people recognize you the moment you start into it is a big thrill!

— Porter Wagoner

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

— Jon Pardi

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

— Van Morrison

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

— Bruce Springsteen

There's an easy way to tell if you have a good song. You get hit in the head with a message, and you get…

— John Waite