Walker Hayes Quotes

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

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

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Put out great music, and that's that.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.