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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.
It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
[George Michael] is a great songwriter and he makes very classy videos, like me.
I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.
Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.
It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.
I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.
As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.
I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.
I'm no songwriter because all of my popular songs have just been outgrowths of themes for the various pictures.
I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.
My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.
Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.
For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.
I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.
As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
You could be the best lyricist or rapper or songwriter, if you ain't mentally prepared to put in the work, it's a waste of time.
I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.
I had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.
Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.
As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
I'm a songwriter and producer, so I'm always wanting to make my own stuff, and not use anybody else's.
Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.
On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.
I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.
Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.
I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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.
And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful.
As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.
When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.
I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.
I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.
What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.
I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.
My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.
For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop.
I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
