Ideas Quote by Van Morrison

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

— Boots Riley

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit…

— Paul Simon

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

— Grace Potter

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

— Kate Bush

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

— John Lee Hooker

I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to…

— Conor Oberst

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

— Vance Joy

When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound…

— Nick Cave