Sam Hunt Quotes

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

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

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

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

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

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

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

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 try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.