Songwriter Quotes · Page 7

Working with Secondhand Serenade, I just felt like a songwriter, you know, working with another songwriter.

— John Popper

I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I just never had the desire to go beyond that - just to be a good country singer and a good country…

— Porter Wagoner

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it…

— Kaskade

I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played…

— Chris de Burgh

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

— Murray Head

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

— Lionel Richie

I want to keep growing as a musician. I want to keep making records. I want to keep improving as a songwriter.…

— Rosalia

A lot of people are coming down on people taking old rock 'n' roll songs and making commercials out of them, but…

— J. J. Cale

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more…

— Kara DioGuardi

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't…

— Lucy Dacus

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of…

— Steve Forbert

I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I…

— Carole King

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock…

— Beth Hart

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look…

— Ronald Isley

I am not one of those writers that just does songwriting one way. Personally, I think the best song will pop out…

— Crosby Loggins

“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour…

— Keith Richards

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to…

— Danny Jacob

I think the one I'm most proud of as a songwriter is 'Breaking Your Heart' because it was just a different style…

— Jessie James Decker

Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is…

— Frankie Knuckles

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to…

— Lou Doillon

I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in…

— Paul Weller

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

— Tom Cochrane

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

— Linda Perry

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a…

— Rick Springfield

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

— Bryan Adams

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

— Danny Brown

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

— Damon Albarn

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

— J. J. Cale

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.

— Bill Kaulitz

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own…

— Kim Petras

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

— Josh Silver

I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not.

— Declan McKenna

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

— John Oates

My sister's job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

— Sigrid

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

— Maren Morris

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

— John Hiatt