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Songwriters Quotes & Sayings

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I love female singer-songwriters! — Melissa Benoist

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think. — John Darnielle

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. — Steve Earle

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

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. — P.J. Harvey

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

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important. — Ryan Cayabyab

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

I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts. — Lykke Li

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

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also. — John Phillips

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters. — Patti Scialfa

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

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room. — Bobby Bare

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

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs. — Sonny Burgess

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

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft. — Steve Earle

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

When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place. — Charlotte Eriksson

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me. — Mel Brooks

All songwriters are links in a chain. — Pete Seeger

The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin. — Stuart Price

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares. — Gabrielle Aplin

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different. — Neil Diamond

I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters. — Sydney Wayser

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. — Jimmy Buffett

Songwriters tell the truth. — Kara DioGuardi

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers. — Barry Mann

I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about. — Roddy Woomble

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters. — Judith Hill

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard. — Leon Bridges

I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad. — Tom T. Hall

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. — Paul Thomas Anderson

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. — Natalie Imbruglia

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs. — Olivia Newton-John

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions. — Dan Hill

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. — Mick Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. — Daniel Ek

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

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

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

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

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 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

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. — Ian MacKaye

I was never a topical songwriter. — Bob Dylan

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter. — Sly Stone

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. — Jimmy Webb

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research. — Andrew Bird

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that. — Carly Simon

Artistes breathe and dream creativity! — Avijeet Das

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. — Neil Innes