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Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. — Vivian Campbell

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible. — Graham Russell

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs. — Tim Finn

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period. — Ne-Yo

Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training. — Mason Currey

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter. — Taylor Momsen

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs. — Terry Teachout

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. — Charlotte Eriksson

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff. — Nikki Jean

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. — Tori Amos

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail? — John Hiatt

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to go, go, go! — Charlotte Eriksson

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric. — Steve Earle

It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter. — James Bay

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out. — Charlotte Eriksson

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts. — Valerie Simpson

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself. — Jeff Tweedy

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter. — Dan Fogelberg

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist. — L.A. Reid

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college. — Brett Dennen

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

Cash said in return, "I'm a songwriter. I use my imagination. The important thing is the message of the song, not the imagery. — Robert Hilburn

Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism. — Don Was

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

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter. — Lyle Lovett

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus. — Jessie J.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape. — Miley Cyrus

I mainly like to do singer/songwriter kind of stuff. — Hayley Orrantia

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news. — John Mellencamp

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

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out. — Tift Merritt

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change. — John Feldmann

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. — Ric Ocasek

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith. — Ashthon Jones

You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter. — Karen Elson

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991. — Chris Cornell

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock. — Brandon Jones

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music. — Alex Ebert

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love. — Elton John

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter. — Birdy

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist. — Charlie Puth

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer. — Josh Silver

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits. — Ben Harper

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today. — Otis Blackwell

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter. — Trey Songz

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one." — Vince Gill

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player. — Kid Rock

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter. — Micky Dolenz

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story. — Elle Varner

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer. — Wes Borland

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do. — Jewel

The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer. — Cris Judd

The longer you live the less you're dead. — James Mee

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird. — Carly Rae Jepsen

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs. — Jill Sobule

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. — Damon Albarn

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that. — David Friedman

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. — Robert Smith

As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.' — Tyler Farr

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience. — Vonda Shepard

I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't. — Art Alexakis

I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure. — Andrew Gold

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. — Justin Townes Earle

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. — Jeremy London

I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer. — Robbie Williams

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart. — Diana Ross

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician. — Noel Gallagher

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. — Bjork

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time — Paul Simon

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter. — Juliana Hatfield

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy. — Tyler Hilton

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive. — Dave Carter

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special. — Dierks Bentley

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette. — DJ Spooky

I'm not a natural songwriter. — Rod Stewart

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter. — Shamir

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. — Craig Finn

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. — Charlotte Eriksson

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. — James Taylor

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me. — Taylor Swift

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song. — Rostam Batmanglij

And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful. — Ben Lovett

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance. — Ani DiFranco

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. — Noah Baumbach

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. — Billy Joel

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist. — Andy Kindler

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter. — Andrew Bird

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience. — Chang Chen-yue

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start. — Daryl Hall

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. — Sufjan Stevens

I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs. — Valerie June

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not. — Lionel Richie

I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine. — Tom Rosenthal

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest. — Charlotte Eriksson

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity. — Tom Cochrane

A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell. — Meghan Daum

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! — Nanci Griffith