Singer songwriters Quotes · Page 4

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

— Michael Kiwanuka

Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life

— Drake

I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.

— Drake

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

— Drake

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

— Drake

I was an unknown singer-songwriter in a sea of white-guy singer-songwriters.

— Noah Kahan

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

— Lady Gaga

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

— Sam Smith

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth…

— Tom Waits

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about…

— Brandi Carlile

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it.…

— Mark Knopfler

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them…

— Anonymous

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

— Jill Sobule

I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an…

— Sarah Weeks

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips.…

— Van Morrison

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when…

— India.Arie

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that.…

— Frank Ocean

Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and…

— Michel Martin

A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some…

— Jenny O

I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a…

— Kelly Clarkson

Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a…

— Amelie Nothomb

I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to…

— Bonnie McKee

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of…

— Michael Jackson

Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know…

— Colbie Caillat

I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

— Drake

Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.

— Ella Henderson

Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back.

— Drake

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

— Yoko Ono

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

— John Lennon

But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

— Drake

In the middle of my little mess, I forget how BIG I'm blessed!

— Francesca Battistelli

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could…

— Drake

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't…

— Drake

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth

— Drake

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

— Bjork

I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched.

— Drake

You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

— Drake

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

— Sam Tsui

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

— James Murphy

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

— Woody Guthrie