Songwriter Quotes · Page 6

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

— Rodney Crowell

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

— Kris Kristofferson

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

— Dave Carter

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha

And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful.

— Ben Lovett

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy…

— Jakob Dylan

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you…

— Jon Foreman

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing…

— Mick Hucknall

All the best bands have to have more than just one strong songwriter.

— Kim Shattuck

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

— J. Tillman

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther…

— Richard Marx

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if thats all youve got,…

— Katy Perry

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be…

— Anita Baker

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far…

— Jeff Tweedy

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything…

— Amanda Palmer

Slow and quiet is way more difficult than hard and fast, any day of the week. So for me that's always a…

— Josh Freese

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either.…

— Barry McGuire

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to…

— Nanci Griffith

I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When…

— Zella Day

And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she…

— Reese Witherspoon

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention…

— Melissa Manchester

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I…

— Scott McGoldrick

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with…

— Kacey Musgraves

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

I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the…

— Trixie Mattel

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or…

— Robert Wyatt

That's part of it: You can't be a country singer-songwriter if you've never had an official heartbreak.

— Hank Williams III

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

— Elle Varner

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

— Maren Morris

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done…

— Tom Cochrane

As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

— Maren Morris

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

— James Bay

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

— Neil Diamond

I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.

— Craig David

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a…

— PJ Harvey