Top 1200 Singer-Songwriter Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.
If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.
I want to keep bettering myself as an actor and singer.
In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.
I've been fortunate that when Frank Sinatra was in concert, he would say, 'Here's a song by a wonderful young songwriter, Jimmy Webb,' and I'd be in the front row and stand up. That gets people talking about you.
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.
I didn't start out to be a country singer. It just happened that way.
Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour
In the end, it's always about the three-piece band and the singer.
My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.
I have the same friends I had before I turned a singer or an actor.
When I was 12 years old and first decided I wanted to be a songwriter, the people that I always looked up to were Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and people like that.
I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.
Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.
I want to be a country singer more than anything in the world.
I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained.
The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.
Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day - denim, jeans, long hair, early 20s.
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about one thing and months later you're playing it and thinking, hang on, this is completely informing where I am now.
I got my first acting role because I was a singer.
For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
I am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As a songwriter, publisher and friend...there is no better home than Kobalt!
That's a lonely place when you think that nobody wants to work with you, but in reality, what it is is they're just wanting to see you get good enough to get a publishing deal or to be a professional songwriter.
My dad was lead singer of the Tremeloes and he gave me advice.
I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.
I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard.
I think we achieved what we wanted to achieve. It was a short time period but we had broken America, we had been a worldwide success, and certainly George, as a songwriter, was outgrowing Wham!
I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for other people because somebody else is going to come along who didn't have a good issue with their father.
I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.
The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
You should know that you need talent, passion, and luck to be a singer.
I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.
Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel
I've always wanted to be a singer, since as far back as I can remember.
I want to be a playback singer and make my name big.
My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.
Sara Bareilles is one of my favorite singer-songwriters of all time.
I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.
I love music. I like to sing. But I am not a singer. I hum.
A singer must be able to sing any kind of song
The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.
I am a singer and dancer and I want to focus on this aspect of my personality.
I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
I am not a trained singer, but I always sing from my heart.
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.
My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.
With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.
As a singer, I always try to keep my music videos clean.
