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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves — Bill Anderson

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song. — Elvis Costello

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing. — Jens Lekman

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs. — Madonna Ciccone

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs. — Stephen Sondheim

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail? — John Hiatt

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers. — Tom Lehrer

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about ... — Paul McCartney

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right. — Jenny Lewis

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones. — Miles Davis

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view. — Kool Keith

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. — Joe Satriani

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night. — Eric Hutchinson

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band. — Matt Berninger

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. — Stephan Jenkins

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff. — Hamilton Leithauser

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song. — Jonny Lang

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. — Craig Finn

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. — Joni Mitchell

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on. — Mick Jagger

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know. — PJ Harvey

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. — Kacey Musgraves

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind. — Angel Olsen

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college. — Brett Dennen

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth. — Jon Foreman

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless. — Albert Hammond Jr.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs." — Chuck D

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song. — Neil Diamond

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar — Neil Young

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing. — Brett Dennen

I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing. — Phillip Phillips

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing]. — Damien Rice

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded. — Dorianne Laux

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song. — Bruno Mars

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

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git. — Marc Almond

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice. — Benmont Tench

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird. — Ester Dean

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people. — Joshua Radin

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song. — John Legend

I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit. — Ladyhawke

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams. — Bob Dylan

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree. — Tracy Chapman

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. — Judith Hill

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional. — Avril Lavigne

It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it. — Toby Lightman

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck. — Chad Kroeger

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel. — Amy Tan

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous. — Andy Biersack

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long. — Erica Sehyun Song

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and ... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work. — Tom Scholz

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs. — Orianthi

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God. — Tim Hughes

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. — Sharen Song

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do. — Beth Orton

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster. — Nick Cave

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. — Debasish Mridha

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher. — Cass McCombs

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. — Alice Walker

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. — Mick Barr

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity. — Tristan Prettyman

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. — James Dean Bradfield

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton. — Jamie Lynn Spears

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. — Daniel Johnston

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube? — M. Leighton

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes. — Cole Porter

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective — Beth Nielsen Chapman

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

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym. — Shirley Manson

Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind. — Tim Lambesis

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever. — Adam Schlesinger

I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's
usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time. — Ludacris

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow. — Elvis Costello

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe. — Bradford Cox

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song. — Dan Bejar

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs. — Nolan Sotillo

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs. — Tom DeLonge

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. — John Lydon

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write. — Jillian Hervey

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. — Alan Menken

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting. — Nina Nesbitt

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song. — Dolly Parton

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. — Taylor Swift

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. — Serj Tankian

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything. — Eddie Vedder