“I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.” IfsMatterSongMy OwnSpendingPens Author:Jake Owen
“Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?” KnowsWellsSaidYoungSongVoiceHumorousPensSpares Book:Not So Deep as a Well Source: Not So Deep as a Well
“Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.” WritingSometimesHandsSongPaperGuitarDevicesMelodyPensAudioGreat LyricAudio Recording Author:Jon Foreman
“I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanSongStuffWonderAlbumsPensBradPaisley Author:Joe Nichols
“I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that. I jot down lyrics wherever I am. Usually it's on a vomit bag on an airplane or something. I just look for a pen.” WritingLooksSongCarWalkingPlanesBagsPensBusAirplane Author:Joshua Radin
“As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.” ThinkingWayWantKindHardJobsSongStuffDifficultBe GoodPensRhymeBetter Than You Author:Ariel Pink
“When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.” WritingBelieveSoulTogetherSongRealizingColorPaintingListeningPensMatesWriting SongsSoul Mate Author:Prince
“Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.” TryingYearsSongGirlQualityEgoMessagesPensSimplify Author:Jason Mraz