Band Quote by Mike McCready

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to…

— Ed Robertson

It's the most important thing, that you're happy with your music and your style. You can't create success and you can't create a successful…

— Bill Kaulitz

You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar…

— John Petrucci

I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company…

— Mark Foster

My favorite way to get into the songwriting process is to get into the studio, and then usually, they play a loop of four…

— Tate McRae

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

— Timothy B. Schmit

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate…

— David Longstreth

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And…

— The Edge

You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one…

— Rickey Medlocke

I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the…

— Mark Ronson

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life…

— Bridgit Mendler