Artist Quote by Mike McCready

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to…

— Chris Daughtry

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was…

— Kina Grannis

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go…

— Melanie Martinez

I didn't really know a lot about music when I started out, but now I've learned how to write music or make melodies.

— Jin

I want to keep growing as a musician. I want to keep making records. I want to keep improving as a songwriter. That's what…

— Rosalia

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

— Kris Allen

I just got into music very heavily as a kid and I pretty much knew I wanted to be a musician.

— Michael Penn

I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I don't have…

— CMAT

I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there. When I…

— Declan McKenna

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

— Frank Sinatra Jr