“I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.” PeopleCountrySongRecordsFrontsMomDadStandardsDown AndMy MomOld PeopleBack WhenMom And Dad Author:Ricky Skaggs
“I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.” MeanPlaySongPlayerDown AndGuitarMagazinesCreedsOffenseGuitar Player Author:Dweezil Zappa
“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.” IfsWayLooksArtIdeasDifferentWholeSongCreatingArt IsDown AndChaosReactionsDifferent WaysUpside DownTornadoesThings Upside Down Author:Marilyn Manson
“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.” WritingTryingI CanSometimesHardSongThreeSimpleDown AndChordsMessed Up Author:Sondre Lerche
“I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.” GivingWritingTryingTodaySongDown AndStuckSatTape Author:Jules Shear
“My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.” IfsWritingI CanSongDown AndGuitarTherapyMy Best FriendAmazing Song Author:Miley Cyrus
“It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.” WritingDifferentSongEasyBoysDown AndPopsHonestlyDifferent ThingsPop Song Author:Avril Lavigne
“I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.” IdeasEnoughSongDown AndCrank Author:Amanda Palmer
“The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.” IfsThinkingWritingFirstsI CanCertainSongStuffWorryMusicianBallsDown And Author:Steven Tyler
“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.” WritingLittlesTogetherSongSoundHalfForeverPiecesPersonalityDown AndFinishedMoodSatGoing AwayTake MeBullshitEditingSwitching Author:Matt Berninger
“I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.” PeopleWritingKindSongSubjectsDown And Author:Creed Bratton
“Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingSongBedDown AndWork OutPlanes Author:Bruno Mars