Writing Songs Quotes

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
- Paula Abdul

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
- Adele

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
- Van Morrison

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
- Keren Ann

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
- Otis Blackwell

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
- John Bonham

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
- Edie Brickell

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
- Garth Brooks

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
- Mel Brooks

That's what my life is, writing songs.
- John Cale

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
- Neko Case

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
- Guy Clark

I started writing songs at age 15.
- Vince Clarke

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
- Chris Cornell

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.
- Sheryl Crow

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
- Warren Cuccurullo

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
- Miley Cyrus

I'm an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.
- Elizabeth Eulberg

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
- Bryan Ferry

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
- Barry Gibb

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
- Delta Goodrem

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
- Jonny Greenwood

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
- Jerry Harrison

I really, really like writing songs.
- Debbie Harry

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
- Robyn Hitchcock

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.
- Shannon Hoon

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
- Scott Ian

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
- Chris Isaak

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
- Billy Joel

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
- Kelly Jones

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.
- Kimbra

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
- Solange Knowles

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
- Christine Lavin

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
- Lisa Loeb

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
- Courtney Love

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
- Marian Mcpartland

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
- Alanis Morisette

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
- Alanis Morissette

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
- Joanna Newsom

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
- Will Oldham

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
- Neil Young

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.
- Phillip Phillips

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
- Tommy Rettig

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
- Maggie Stiefvater

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
- Maggie Stiefvater

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
- Johnny Rivers

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.
- Smokey Robinson

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
- Gavin Rossdale

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
- Shakira

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
- Billy Sherwood

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
- Chad Smith

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
- Elliott Smith

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
- Rick Springfield

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
- Gwen Stefani

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.
- Richard Thompson

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
- Jeff Tweedy

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
- Paul Weller

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
- Lucinda Williams

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.
- Alicia Witt

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
- Robert Wyatt

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
- James Young