About Quote by Jens Lekman

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and…

— Nick Cave

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

— Justin Hayward

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

— Tristan Murail

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

— Barry White

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean…

— David Longstreth

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

— Richie Sambora

I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current…

— Phil Ochs

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem…

— Tom Waits

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone…

— Katie Melua

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

— Nanci Griffith

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

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