Been Quote by Jana Kramer

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

— Alexander Chee

I am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going to relate…

— Beth Hart

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

— Rosanne Cash

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote…

— Juliette Lewis

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and…

— Alison Krauss

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it,…

— Bea Miller

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described…

— Emily Haines

I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because…

— Guy Clark

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe…

— Ray Charles