Developing Quote by James Mercer

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find…

— Travie McCoy

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

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the…

— Lenny Kravitz

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to…

— Jason Isbell

I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I don't have…

— CMAT

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully,…

— Dean Wareham

You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and…

— Alice Merton

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it.…

— Mike Stud

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the…

— Lyle Lovett

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding