Luke Bryan Quotes

You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out there and just play - you can be an entertainer, too.

If a woman's aim is to become a singer, I would highly advise her to first develop her craft in songwriting. It's such a powerful tool to have when you're a singer.

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

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.

I'm a songwriter first.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

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

I think every singer should get a formal training in music.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.