Be good Quote by Graham Colton

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

— Kristian Bush

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song…

— Matthew Ramsey

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death…

— Ben Gibbard

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because…

— Jon Foreman

Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and…

— J. Robbins

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that…

— Greg Howard

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have…

— Chris de Burgh

I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current…

— Phil Ochs

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the…

— Robyn

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

— Jonathan McReynolds

I always think that you should never, ever force a producer to do something with a song that they don't think they can do…

— Beth Hart

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

— Scott Ian