Make Quote by Gord Downie

We know how fickle the music industry is and that you have to focus on the things you can control-writing songs and playing music.

— Tony Kanal

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

— Jamie Hince

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that…

— Dave Grohl

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

— Julia Holter

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

— Matthew Ramsey

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

— Sarah McLachlan

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

I've always been of that mindset - when you're writing tunes with people, there's a traditional way of chopping things up, and then there's…

— Derek Trucks

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

— Anne Akiko Meyers

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could…

— Kid Ink

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right…

— Richard Thompson

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of…

— Gregory Harrison