Jon Pardi Quotes

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.

Death Cab always gets right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There's a song that has yet to be released - it might come to light at some point in the near future - that when I was writing it, I was really proud of it lyrically.

I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it to the record, then that's what is supposed to come, you know what I mean.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.