Singer-songwriter Quotes

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. (Justin Townes Earle)
I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it. View quote
Kim Dickens
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV. View quote
Rupert Holmes
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound. View quote
Sara Bareilles
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. View quote
Kevin Bacon
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. View quote
Björk
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing. View quote
Lily King
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs. View quote
James Bay
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter. View quote
Andrew Bird
I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure. View quote
Andrew Gold
I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around. (Bonnie Raitt)
Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music. View quote
Brad Delson
I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson. View quote
Bryan Greenberg
I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country. View quote
Charles Kelley
And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with. View quote
Jessie J
I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs. View quote
Jill Sobule
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. View quote
John Legend
It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news. View quote
John Mellencamp
I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock. View quote
Brandon Jones
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. View quote
Noah Baumbach
You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one. (Steve Earle)
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand. View quote
Steve Earle
I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back. View quote
Tony Vincent
I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though. View quote
Vance Joy
I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead. View quote
Vonda Shepard