Rodney Atkins Quotes

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

I write the best songs I can.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.