Born Quote by Roger Miller

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

— Tom Waits

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

— Kim Deal

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that…

— Art Garfunkel

Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives.…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

— The-Dream

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

— Joan Armatrading

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that…

— Kim Gordon