Beatles Quote by Rodney Crowell

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a…

— Rodney Crowell

We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives,…

— Robert Wyatt

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took…

— David Friedman

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a…

— Fiona Apple

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute…

— Lou Reed

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had…

— Rudy Vallee

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young…

— Jose Feliciano

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

— James Murphy

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

— Mark Lanegan

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

— Sheryl Crow