Song Quote by Stephin Merritt

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs.…

— Exene Cervenka

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

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot…

— Andy Grammer

It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the songs. I…

— Win Butler

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way…

— Jon Foreman

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a…

— David Byrne

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

— David Gilmour

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

— Linda Perry

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

— John Hiatt

I can't hire other people to write songs for me. I have to write them myself.

— Shakira

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

— David Bowie