Songwriter Quotes - page 6

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. (Steve Earle)
I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric. View quote
Steve Earle
As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity. View quote
Stone Gossard
Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs. View quote
Tim Finn
I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter. View quote
Trey Songz
Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame. View quote
Tyler Hilton
I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs. View quote
Valerie June
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad. View quote
Wayne Coyne
I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer. View quote
Wes Borland
What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront. View quote
will.i.am
I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. (Mel Brooks)
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert. View quote
George Gershwin
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. View quote
Salma Hayek
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion. View quote
James Blunt
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. View quote
Cyndi Lauper
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them! View quote
Dolly Parton
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. View quote
John Frusciante
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work. View quote
Jason Mraz
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. View quote
Nick Cave
I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter. (Noel Gallagher)
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter. View quote
Taylor Momsen
My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. View quote
Tori Amos
I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired. View quote
Morrissey
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. View quote
John Mayer