People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We love the great Disney songs - they have always inspired us in our work and in our lives! But for 'Let… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever would record the song.… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights… — Jonathan Potter Copy Share Image
Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can't… — Ben Chasny Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that -… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more… — Frank Liddell Copy Share Image
I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you… — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea.… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
I love to give the song away - it's so exciting - where, I think, a lot of younger songwriters, they struggle… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!'… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity,… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel… — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
