Jim Varney Quotes

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing 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.

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

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.

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.

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

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

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

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

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.

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.