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JAMES IHA![]()
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When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I...
CHRIS CORNELL![]()
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything mysel...
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I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha...
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ...
ETHEL MERMAN One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th...
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I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar sol...
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ADAM CARROLL![]()
Writing it was kind of hard, ... I wrote a lot of it on the road, and I don't really enjoy writing o...
DIERKS BENTLEY I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and hav...
CHERI OTERI The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blos...
BECKY G![]()
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the bl...
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KYLE DUNNIGAN![]()
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
MAYA ANGELOU I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish peopl...
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For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that...
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
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DANIEL SMITH It was nice to be able to look at the guitar player and suggest something else, and feeling comforta...
ANGIE MCWHIRTER I majored in theater, but it was pretty obvious right off that I wasn't any good as an actor. I'd be...
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I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song...
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I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki...
TOM LEHRER I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at al...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pret...
HENRY WALTER BATES When writing a new song I like better, it makes me appreciate the song I wrote before that I didn't ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT![]()
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ...
LUKE BRYAN I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just ac...
SHAMIR As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a sho...
DAN ANDRIANO I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu...
JACKIE DESHANNON I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song&...
CARLY CRAIG![]()
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ...
JACK KEROUAC![]()
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my...
KEHLANI Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, &...
JAMES BAY![]()
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in ho...
MOBY![]()
As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I ca...
YAEL NAIM![]()
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of ...
ELLIE GOULDING![]()
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
ACE FREHLEY![]()
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
ADRIAN BELEW![]()
I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.
DARREN CRISS Yeah, totally! I think you've nailed it! You know, I don't think SOULFLY sounds like SEPULTURA , mys...
BOBBY BURNS![]()
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w...
GREGG ALLMAN Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like St...
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I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and ...
BILL HADER![]()
When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE There was a period of time prior to the restoration, when shows were run by Venue Tech, they pretty ...
BILL BARR![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up bein...
JENNIFER DAMIANO I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played this guitar on and...
ANDY GRIFFITH I wrote one of my songs completely out in the field. Another one I started in Alaska and finished in...
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[White said there was no way they were going to let a little wind spoil their good time.] It looks l...
JACK WHITE![]()
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I...
MAURY YESTON If I go back to when I was 18 years old, here was this group writing songs and playing rock 'n' roll...
CURTIS REMINGTON Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cu...
ORSON WELLES In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w...
BENMONT TENCH![]()
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot...
STEVIE NICKS![]()
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my gu...
JIMI HENDRIX No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for ...
KIP PARDUE![]()
Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head.
JIM MORRISON![]()
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by diff...
EDDIE FLOYD![]()
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w...
GREGG ALLMAN![]()
I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. The way it was said makes it sound like I'm not singing live at my shows, which is not true. In the ...
CELINE DION As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN By the time we're done this weekend, it'll be pretty much like doing a month's business in three day...
PATRICK FLANAGAN I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON
BILLY SHERWOOD 'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this tra...
LUIS FONSI At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar play...
JAMES IHA
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Mac... TRENT REZNOR
I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except ... ASTRO
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I... CHRIS CORNELL
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything mysel... TODD RUNDGREN So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble...
JOHN ENTWISTLE
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha... TOM LEHRER
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ... ETHEL MERMAN One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar sol... CHAD KROEGER For (Far Away Blues) I wrote a bunch of half songs on the piano and the guitar, and then I had kind ...
ADAM CARROLL
Writing it was kind of hard, ... I wrote a lot of it on the road, and I don't really enjoy writing o... DIERKS BENTLEY I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and hav...
CHERI OTERI The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
CAM
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blos... BECKY G
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the bl... KINA GRANNIS I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... MAYA ANGELOU I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish peopl...
HASIL ADKINS
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... BRAD PAISLEY
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. ALICE WALKER Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song ...
DANIEL SMITH It was nice to be able to look at the guitar player and suggest something else, and feeling comforta...
ANGIE MCWHIRTER I majored in theater, but it was pretty obvious right off that I wasn't any good as an actor. I'd be...
CHAD BEGUELIN I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#...
SAFFRON BURROWS
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... COREY TAYLOR
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki... TOM LEHRER I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
KATE MICUCCI
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at al... GAIL CARSON LEVINE One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pret...
HENRY WALTER BATES When writing a new song I like better, it makes me appreciate the song I wrote before that I didn't ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ... LUKE BRYAN I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just ac...
SHAMIR As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a sho...
DAN ANDRIANO I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu...
JACKIE DESHANNON I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song&...
CARLY CRAIG
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ... JACK KEROUAC
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my... KEHLANI Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, &...
JAMES BAY
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in ho... MOBY
As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I ca... YAEL NAIM
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of ... ELLIE GOULDING
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. ACE FREHLEY
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. ADRIAN BELEW
I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs. DARREN CRISS Yeah, totally! I think you've nailed it! You know, I don't think SOULFLY sounds like SEPULTURA , mys...
BOBBY BURNS
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w... GREGG ALLMAN Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like St...
MICKEY SPILLANE 'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-...
LESLIE FEIST
I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and ... BILL HADER
When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must j...
JOHN ADAMS I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE There was a period of time prior to the restoration, when shows were run by Venue Tech, they pretty ...
BILL BARR
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up bein...
JENNIFER DAMIANO I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played this guitar on and...
ANDY GRIFFITH I wrote one of my songs completely out in the field. Another one I started in Alaska and finished in...
JIM COLE
[White said there was no way they were going to let a little wind spoil their good time.] It looks l... JACK WHITE
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I... MAURY YESTON If I go back to when I was 18 years old, here was this group writing songs and playing rock 'n' roll...
CURTIS REMINGTON Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA
I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric a... THOMAS MCGUANE Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friend...
JAMES IHA I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my f...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cu... ORSON WELLES In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w...
BENMONT TENCH
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... STEVIE NICKS
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my gu... JIMI HENDRIX No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for ...
KIP PARDUE
Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head. JIM MORRISON
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by diff...
EDDIE FLOYD
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w... GREGG ALLMAN
I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. The way it was said makes it sound like I'm not singing live at my shows, which is not true. In the ...
CELINE DION As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN By the time we're done this weekend, it'll be pretty much like doing a month's business in three day...
PATRICK FLANAGAN I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. 
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal. 
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive... 
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge. 
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t... 
Many states favor joint custody. 
Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going t... 
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. 
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t... 
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. 
You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. 
I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon... 
I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay. 
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist. 