Book Quote by John Fahey

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

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started…

— Bryan Hayes

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies…

— Lari White

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play…

— Cody Simpson

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I…

— Rico Love

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was…

— Kina Grannis

Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to…

— Casey James

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

— Juan Gabriel

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

— Jesse Harris

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were…

— Wayne Kramer

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young