Around Quote by Jay Sean

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

— Bob Dylan

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

— Geddy Lee

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

— Rick James

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

— Andrew Bird

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times.…

— Dizzee Rascal

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.

— Tiny Tim

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The…

— Mose Allison

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all…

— Ringo Starr

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes…

— Nick Lowe