Music making Quote by Ian MacKaye

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

— Timothy B. Schmit

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

— Iwan Rheon

Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows…

— Marco Mendoza

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.

— Paul Rodgers

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

— Kinky Friedman

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

— Mike McCready

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke