Actors Quote by St. Vincent

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

— Andre Previn

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs…

— Johnny Flynn

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

— Martin Gore

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

— Meryl Streep

I was writing songs in my room for like six year, not showing anyone.

— Dean Lewis

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

I don't write songs.

— John Corbett

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

— Neil Diamond

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I…

— Bo Burnham

I remember one day going in the studio to sing and then going to work with three separate songwriters before I came back in…

— John Waite