Top 937 Songwriter Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.
I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
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.
I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.
As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
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.
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.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.
I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.
I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.
I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.
I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.
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.
What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.
I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.
I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.
The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.
I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.
I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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.
I am a songwriter and producer, and though you have to be personal in everything you do, you always having to look at things from another's perspective.
My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
My wife is cool enough to let me write about personal things, to be a songwriter exploring the shadowy sides of love.
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.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!
In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.
I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself.
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.
I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.
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.
For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.
The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't have any regrets.
I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
