Writing Songs Quotes

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

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

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.

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.

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

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.

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.

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

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.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

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

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

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.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I started writing songs at age 15.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

I love writing songs.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

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

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

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.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.