Be you Quote by David Longstreth

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real…

— Clare Grogan

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

— Annie E. Clark

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and…

— Lucy Dacus

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making…

— Scott McClanahan

When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's why I…

— Dennis DeYoung

I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved…

— El-P

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

— Nadine Coyle

It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go…

— Angel Deradoorian

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who…

— Johnny Flynn

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something…

— Zooey Deschanel

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived,…

— Jarryd James

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always…

— John Prine