Keith richards Quote by Ryan Ross

“To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart," Richards notes, "is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs…

— Keith Richards

“I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier.”

— Sienna McQuillen

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

Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he…

— Mark Stevenson

“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.”

— Anthony Burgess

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

“Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song…

— Loren Weisman

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

— Kinky Friedman

“That is why, as Paul Westermeyer observes, “a group who sings together becomes one and remembers its story, and therefore who it is, in…

— Brian A. Wren

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.

— Brendon Urie

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change…

— Teddy Geiger