Be careful Quote by Jason Isbell

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen…

— Willie Nelson

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think…

— Sam Hunt

People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition…

— Neko Case

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

— Dolly Parton

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney,…

— Jake Owen

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to…

— Rodney Atkins

That's part of it: You can't be a country singer-songwriter if you've never had an official heartbreak.

— Hank Williams III

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the…

— Hunter Hayes

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

— James Murphy

If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd…

— Synyster Gates

I always wrote little songs, but they were really bad.

— Alex G

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard