Buzz Osborne Quotes

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.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at.

It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.

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

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

I don't know, samples are just like unlimited ideas, you know? Sometimes a lot of people sample one song. A lot of it is also really just up to the artist and their creativity to see where it goes and what they want to do.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.