Connected Quote by Eric Roberson

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

— Bob Dylan

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

— John Lydon

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs…

— Brian Wilson

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit…

— Paul McCartney

I just love to sit and go, 'Let's just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be'.

— Oliver Sykes

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

— Creed Bratton

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding

When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

— Ben Howard

Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.…

— Billy Joel

I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything.…

— Gregg Allman

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano…

— Trey Parker

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