Famous Quote by Michael Bacon

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was…

— John Denver

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The…

— Carl Gardner

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take…

— Nuno Bettencourt

No matter what, if you write a song that's great that everyone expects to be a hit, then everyone's going to be expecting another…

— LP

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might…

— Poo Bear

As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care…

— Five for Fighting

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

— Richie Sambora

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard

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

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet…

— Jimmy Cliff

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

— Paul Rodgers