Blues Quote by Lou Doillon

When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft…

— Kiesza

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

— Bob Dylan

I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with…

— Gwen Stefani

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

— Barry White

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

— Rokia Traore

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing,…

— Pete Townshend

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll…

— Sune Rose Wagner

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

— James Taylor

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

— Adrian Belew

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

— Joni Mitchell