Genius Quote by Gary Louris

I love to write songs, but they don't come easy to me - I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that…

— Michael McDonald

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

— Amanda Palmer

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it…

— James Mercer

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas,…

— Dave Gahan

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all…

— Andrew Bird

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any…

— Jack Garratt

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few…

— Ed Kowalczyk

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea…

— Anthony Hamilton

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

— Ted Nugent

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my…

— Fergie