Able Quote by Wayne Kramer

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were…

— Wayne Kramer

I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't.

— Rodney Crowell

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

— Neil Innes

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

— Curt Smith

We know how fickle the music industry is and that you have to focus on the things you can control-writing songs and playing music.

— Tony Kanal

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of…

— Carly Simon

We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.

— Winston Marshall

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to…

— Mike Stud

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going…

— Alison Goldfrapp

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it…

— Vashti Bunyan

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

— Kevin Parker

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

— Abigail Washburn