Thomas Rhett Quotes

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

I just want to make music people like.

If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me.

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is a magical moment. I never lost that buzz.

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

I can't wait to see someone else from Louisville make a hit song 'cos that'd be dope. I can only imagine how J Cole would feel if somebody just came out of Fayetteville and started booming with some crazy records.

I take a lot of pride in my songs.

I think I topped 'When I Need You' with 'More Than I Can Say.'

As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too.

I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

The end game is always a hit song.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.