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I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. — Lucinda Williams

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. — Noel Gallagher

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it. — Quincy Jones

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. — Charley Pride

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically. — Martin Fry

My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters. — Marcia Strassman

I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them. — Tift Merritt

Some of my closest friends are songwriters. I'm in love with the way they can create music and magic. — Danielle Barone

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. — Mike Gordon

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ... — Sarah McLachlan

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings. — Nina Nastasia

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me. — Kina Grannis

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter. — Sinead O'Connor

I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine. — Jill Sobule

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. — Barry Mann

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories. — Art Alexakis

I decided the world was filled with plenty of good guitar players, many of them my match or better, but how many good songwriters were there? — Bruce Springsteen

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or. — Art Alexakis

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing. — Roger Daltrey

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. — Mike Stoller

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

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. — Smokey Robinson

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too. — Emeli Sande

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters. — Adolph Green

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies. — Jens Lekman

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show. — Jacob Whitesides

One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever. — Tig Notaro

It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words. — Christina Aguilera

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers. — Dan Hill

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around. — Rufus Wainwright

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. — George Strait

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people. — Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott