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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
Lennon and McCartney became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all types of music.
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.
They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.
The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.
It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
Babyface is one of the top songwriters in the world ever, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have worked with everybody that I grew up listening to.
There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.
I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.
With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.
A list songwriters and producers are reluctant to give Kesha their songs because of her weight.
If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that.
So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
I will say one thing: Mick Mars is one of the greatest songwriters I've ever met in my life and had the pleasure to work with.
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
Townes Van Zandt ranks alongside Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. He inspired so many songwriters to shoot for something that's timeless.
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.
I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.
I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.
Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
I grew up with this idea that songwriters had a great job. My family was Irish Catholic, so if you became a priest or a songwriter, you were golden.
Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
He is irreplaceable. Even in death I have no doubt that Johnny Cash will continue to live on as an inspiration to musicians and songwriters and all of America.
Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.
I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.
I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'
These days the whole 'American Idol' and 'The X Factor' and all that stuff has opened up doors for songwriters like me. I get songs on their albums.
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.
In reality - and we've always said this - yes, we are girls, women, but, first and foremost, we're musicians and we're songwriters.
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
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.
Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
