Cant Quote by Dierks Bentley

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your…

— Dierks Bentley

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to…

— Justin Townes Earle

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience…

— Amos Lee

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

— Ben Gibbard

I am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a beat and…

— Darrelle Revis

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that…

— Chris Stapleton

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the…

— Lyle Lovett

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so…

— Jewel

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

— Natalie Prass