Band Quote by Tim Rutili

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

— Adam Levine

I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

— Sam Smith

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

— Jon Foreman

If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they…

— Will Sheff

I can tell what inspired the songs for me, or what I was thinking and feeling at the time. But I don't want that…

— Nicholas Thorburn

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

— Kid Rock

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want…

— Roger Waters

Food becomes very secondary when you're trying to write songs, funnily enough. I think a good snack and a good tea break when you've…

— Griff

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

— Sondre Lerche

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I…

— David Nail

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

— Tones and I

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

— Steve Forbert

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

— Ryan Ross

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the…

— Lenny Kravitz

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and…

— Andrew Dost