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Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.
— Gucci Mane
When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.
— Chris Tomlin
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
This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.
— Katy Perry
The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
— Matt Berninger
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
— Erin McKeown
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others ... Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.
— Rodney Crowell
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
I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
— Bob Schneider
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
— Kacey Musgraves
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
— Christopher Owens
There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
— Bruno Mars
I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
— Phillip Phillips
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
— Gene Clark
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
If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
— Neil Young
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
— Jimi Hendrix
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
— Steve Earle
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
— Rupert Holmes
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
— John Darnielle
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
— Enya
I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee?
— Erica Sehyun Song
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
— Kris Kristofferson
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.
— Chris Carmack
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.
— Dan Fogelberg
When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.
— Matt Smith
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
— Taylor Swift
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
— Dar Williams
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
— David Crabb
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
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
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
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
Be a great writer when you write your life's song.
— Debasish Mridha
I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.
— Dan Bejar
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
Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.
— Sharen Song
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
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
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
— David Friedman
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
I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
— Tracy Chapman
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 a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
— Andy Biersack
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
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
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 do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
— Colin Hay
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
Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.
— Nolan Sotillo
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
