Top 369 Songwriters Quotes & Sayings

Sara Bareilles is one of my favorite singer-songwriters of all time.

I know I can cut it with any songwriters in the world.

She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more like 'This is how it's done here. It turned her off - not specific people, but the whole system turned her off. And she wanted to do something, I think, that she could play for her friends in Texas and they would say, Okay, well you're still Miranda.

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

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

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

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

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

I love female singer-songwriters!

I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.

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

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

This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.

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

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.

Songwriters tell the truth.

In the past, being young, I might have been standoffish to working with other songwriters.

Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.

Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.

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

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.

I am one of the best singer-songwriters this country has produced. Ever.

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

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

I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

I'm lucky to be collaborating with a lot of great songwriters/producers - and it's all about chemistry!

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

I hate it when songwriters go on and on with the same idea.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a great songwriter. Tom Douglas - you can't get any better than that. I write a lot of stuff but it's got to stick.

I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!

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

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.