Guitar Quote by J. J. Cale

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly…

— Rick Nielsen

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

— Avi Kaplan

We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always songs for…

— Martie Maguire

I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being…

— Jakob Dylan

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

— Nina Nesbitt

We're always recording music, writing songs.

— Hope Sandoval

Music is an important part of my writing process.

— Peter James

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff and putting…

— Alison Sudol

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen