Bryan Adams Quotes

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

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

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

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

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

I write the best songs I can.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

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.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.