Kacey Musgraves Quotes

I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

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

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

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 wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

I really, really like writing songs.

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.