Imagine Quote by Naima Adedapo

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

— Paul McCartney

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

— Jake Holmes

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility…

— Shawn Colvin

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

— Charli XCX

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

— Jon Pardi

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

— Fred Frith

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like…

— Johnny Cash

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

— Alexander Chee

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

— Macklemore

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

— Emmylou Harris