Big Quote by Johan Renck

Music is the highest art form.I still think that. I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it.…

— Johan Renck

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would…

— Bridgit Mendler

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

— Rosanne Cash

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I…

— Jonathan Coulton

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because…

— David Bowie

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

— Shawn Colvin

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about…

— Hozier

All my life I only wanted to write and play music, but it took a long time to make a go of it, and…

— Eddie Rabbitt

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

All I ever wanted to do was write songs, and I just dreamed of putting out an album and having a single that maybe…

— Cole Swindell