The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill… — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
“... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But… — Dave Edmunds Copy Share Image
I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song.… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm not from a musical family, so I borrowed my friend's guitar and started writing songs for my school music project.… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess… — Finneas Copy Share Image
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I became a singer and a songwriter by learning on the spot, so think I always need to be slightly out of… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of… — Bert Jansch Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to… — George Strait Copy Share Image
I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write… — John Grant Copy Share Image
When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!,… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got,… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
My aunts and uncles were like, 'You've got such a great voice - why don't you try out for 'American Idol?'' I'd… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I completely understand why I am considered a singer-songwriter and I have no problem with any of that. It's just when I'm… — Alex G Copy Share Image
I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a better songwriter, so it seemed like a no-brainer to move to Nashville, where some of the best… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
