Good Quote by Leon Russell

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

— Carly Simon

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

— Leon Russell

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I…

— Carly Simon

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

— Madonna Ciccone

When I was in high school, I was writing all the time, it was such good practice. But I wasn't writing my best songs.

— Gracie Abrams

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

— Carly Simon

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day…

— Adam Goldberg

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing…

— Timothy B. Schmit

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for…

— Shelby Lynne

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really…

— Hilary Duff

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

— Leif Garrett

I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording…

— Keiynan Lonsdale