Quotes About Writing Love Songs

#1. I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

Jenny Lewis

#2. I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

Curtis Jackson

#3. I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Joni Mitchell

#4. I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Elvis Costello

#5. I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Adele

#6. I would go to jail with only boys. Just to prove I was as tough as you. And when I get out for good behavior, I'll be writing love songs. Silly banging knee songs.

Sara Quin

#7. In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.

Warwick Thornton

#8. I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

Courtney Love

#9. If I knew what to do
I'd do more than write a song for you

Criss Jami

#10. In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in the world. It's just that I don't enjoy writing it.

Iron & Wine

#11. I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

Rick Springfield

#12. All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that would be used and how direct we wanted to be.

Jordan Rudess

#13. Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with ... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.

Tove Lo

#14. My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

Birdy

#15. I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

Rivers Cuomo

#16. What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Ann Reed

#17. I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

J. Tillman

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

Nolan Sotillo

#19. I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old ... so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

Hoodie Allen

#20. Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.

Mike Love

#21. I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

Yann Tiersen

#22. I love writing songs.

Sade Adu

#23. A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

Freddie Mercury

#24. I love writing pop songs and I love the challenge. I love melodies and wanted it to be classy. I wanted it to have some substance because I feel as if I have a lot of things to say and wanted it to have something to it.

Courtney Jaye

#25. What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

Sinead O'Connor

#26. I love writing songs where the name is the title.

Katy B

#27. Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love.

M.F. Moonzajer

#28. I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Phil Anselmo

#29. I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

Michael Kiwanuka

#30. I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.

Lyle Lovett

#31. I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

Arlo Guthrie

#32. I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

Luke Bryan

#33. I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

Tom Lehrer

#34. I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

Taylor Swift

#35. I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

Keanu Reeves

#36. I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Barry Gibb

#37. I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!

Megan Lee

#38. Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Frankie Cosmos

#39. I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

John Britt Daniel

#40. I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

Joel Plaskett

#41. I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.

Taryn Manning

#42. I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Solange Knowles

#43. David had apparently been busy writing more songs about the glory of doing his wife.
Ah, true love and stuff.

Kylie Scott

#44. It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

Avril Lavigne

#45. I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

Ray Stevens

#46. I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#47. When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

Martin Gore

#48. I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Mel Brooks

#49. I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

Duffy

#50. The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

Mac DeMarco

#51. I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

Miranda Lambert

#52. The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Kristin Hersh

#53. I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

Randy Newman

#54. It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

Nate Ruess

#55. I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#56. I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

Taylor Swift

#57. I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

Hoodie Allen

#58. I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

Tyler Hilton

#59. Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

Shakira

#60. I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.

John Congleton