Country Quote by Emmylou Harris

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 as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

— Gregg Allman

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 write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

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

— Tom Waits

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

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

— Jann Klose

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if…

— Conor Oberst

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

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

— Colin Linden

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White