Gary Rossington Quotes

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I really, really like writing songs.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Songwriting's a weird game.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.