Band Quote by Kate Pierson

I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would…

— Kate Pierson

You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's…

— Taylor Goldsmith

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

— John Petrucci

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

— Maurice Gibb

We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds cool. I'll…

— Mitch Lucker

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the…

— Colin Hay

I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section,…

— James Young

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience…

— Conor Oberst

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of…

— Chad Gilbert

When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which…

— Tom Jones