Away Quote by Toby Keith

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

— Jakob Dylan

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that…

— Chris Stapleton

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart…

— Tim Gane

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

— George Gershwin

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I…

— Isaac Brock

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 music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that…

— Ken Hill

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

— Ellie Goulding

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

— Roger Taylor

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard