Band Quote by Kate Pierson

Back in high school, I had this folk protest band, and I used to write all the time. And then, when I got in…

— 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

Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me…

— John Prine

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

— David Sylvian

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that…

— Conor Oberst

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 started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You…

— Gordon Lightfoot

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi…

— Paul Rodgers

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired.…

— Angel Olsen

I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast…

— Mark Foster

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

— Matthew Ramsey

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