Songs Quotes

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

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.

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

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

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

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

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively-and there were a lot of choices-writing songs was king.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

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

That's what my life is, writing songs.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

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.

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

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

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

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.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

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.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

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.

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

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

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

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.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.