Bullets Quote by Leonard Cohen

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

— Dan Bejar

I'm constantly writing songs to show people that it's okay to be a work in progress.

— Jelly Roll

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

— Greg Brown

My work is more to me than just music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than…

— Kara DioGuardi

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

— Poo Bear

I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.

— Benji Hughes

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself…

— Pete Seeger

I write songs with melodies, which have sold for decades.

— Van Hunt

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

— Cameron Crowe

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus