This collection holds 16 writing songs quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Lenny Kravitz, Sade Adu and Sammy Cahn.

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I love writing songs.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself

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

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

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

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

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

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