Band Quote by Jon Pardi

I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

— Curtis Mayfield

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds…

— Jason Mraz

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

— Neal Schon

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

— Mose Allison

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.

— Lil Baby

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

— Jon Pardi

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead…

— Bernie Leadon

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play…

— Matthew Ramsey

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like…

— Jeff Tweedy

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too.…

— Otis Redding

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You…

— Mike Dirnt

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want…

— Tyler Joseph

That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.

— Jamie Lynn Spears