Guitar Quote by Thurston Moore

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I…

— Thurston Moore

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform…

— Johnny Reid

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to…

— Mary Gauthier

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. But during those high…

— Kurt Cobain

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all.…

— Bruce Cockburn

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing…

— Ludwig Goransson

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

— Glenn Frey

I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

— Brooke Valentine

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted…

— Madonna Ciccone

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the…

— Domino Kirke