Cole Porter Quotes

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.

We made a decision very early on that George would be the main songwriter because it was very apparent to all of us that he was better at it.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.