Business Quote by Ronnie Van Zant

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

— John Hiatt

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

— Jakob Dylan

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

— John Rzeznik

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might…

— Pete Seeger

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the…

— Pete Seeger

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life,…

— Jason Isbell

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

— Bob Dylan

Wrote my whole life down in a notebook, Songs about you and me, I've been singing to every soul in Tennessee, Nobody seems to…

— Dan Seals

Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations…

— Toby Keith

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

— Alex Turner

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White