Top 1200 Singer-Songwriter Quotes & Sayings

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

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

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

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And I love the sex of singing with a beat; I like the sexiness of it. I think it's really where I'm from.

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.

It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.

I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

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

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

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

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

That's part of it: You can't be a country singer-songwriter if you've never had an official heartbreak.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. I didn't take it all that seriously when I started. It was a little bit of a stigma to being a songwriter or a folkie back then. I did a lot of send-ups of sensitive singer-songwriter stuff when I was starting out, which limited my development as a songwriter in a way. I wasn't really fully given license to explore that until the mid-90s. I'm still working on it; I'm a little bit of a late bloomer.

I never dreamed of being a singer or songwriter. It just happened.

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

I love it when people refer to me as a singer-songwriter. I get flutters in my stomach because they say, 'This is Grace VanderWaal, singer-songwriter,' not, 'This is Grace VanderWaal, winner of 'America's Got Talent.'' I'm so proud of that; it's such a big chapter of my life. But it's nice to kind of not be known as just that.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

I had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.

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

I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

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

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

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

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.

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

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

Michael Jackson is an underappreciated songwriter and an underappreciated singer. I think the world only gives him the most recognition for his dancing. He was an awesome singer and an amazing songwriter.

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.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

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

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

I'm a very emotional singer and songwriter.

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

As a singer-songwriter I definitely think I push the mould a lot.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

I'm a singer, songwriter from Mexico.

My sister's job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter.

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.