Songwriter Quotes - page 3

I'm not a natural songwriter. (Rod Stewart)
I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel. View quote
Bruno Mars
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument. View quote
Joe Cocker
I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special. View quote
George Strait
I'm a songwriter first, have always been, and probably always will be. View quote
Carole King
I'm a songwriter first. View quote
Carole King
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. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode. View quote
Martin Gore
As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. View quote
K.d. lang
Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable. View quote
Joe Jonas
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest. (Nate Ruess)
I am Joss Stone and I am a vegetarian. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a performer and a human being accepting of all sizes, shapes, colours and species. View quote
Joss Stone
I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard. View quote
Louis Tomlinson
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. View quote
Alex Chilton
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. View quote
Andrew Bird
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress. View quote
Anita Baker
I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all. View quote
Beth Ditto
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person. View quote
Billy Sherwood
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records. View quote
Black Francis
Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in Sugar Money, no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me. View quote
Bo Bice
I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from. (Brandi Carlile)
I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing. View quote
Brian McKnight
I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute. View quote
Chad Kroeger
A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter. View quote
Charlie Watts
I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook. View quote
Charlie Worsham