Always Quote by John Prine

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

— Poo Bear

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

— Greg Brown

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was…

— Regina Spektor

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

— Dan Bejar

I have always had to write songs. As a lifestyle and as a business model, it's pretty difficult. Largely at this point I'm so…

— Doug Walters

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a…

— Chris Stapleton

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that…

— Chris Stapleton

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career…

— Jerry Jeff Walker

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was…

— Rufus Wainwright