Black Quote by Mike Stoller

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

We became the songs we wrote.

— Barry Mann

I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black…

— Rhiannon Giddens

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

— Isaac Hanson

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote.…

— PJ Harvey

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

— Mike Lowry

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

— Matthew Ramsey

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

— Benmont Tench

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

I wanted to write music that would be around for a long time.

— John Waite

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

— Rosanne Cash

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all.…

— Bruce Cockburn