Frank Quote by Robert Wyatt

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

— Leo Sayer

People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition…

— Neko Case

It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited him best…

— Ian Gillan

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

— Sharleen Spiteri

Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.

— Sonny Bono

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

— Elvis Presley

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just…

— John Seagall

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

— George Harrison

I grew up in the 60s, and before the 60s, my father was into Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, so I heard those records…

— Mike Campbell

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

— Colin Linden

I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

— Neil Sedaka

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen