Arranging Quote by Scott Weiland

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

— Lucinda Williams

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

— Van Morrison

Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.

— Young Dolph

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

— Avi Kaplan

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going…

— Alison Goldfrapp

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing…

— PJ Harvey

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

— Joan Jett

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to…

— Devin Townsend

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

— Joe Lovano

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes