Songwriters Quotes · Page 6

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

— Cass McCombs

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

— Greg Iles

Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.

— Synyster Gates

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

— Hoodie Allen

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

— Nina Nastasia

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

— Rosanne Cash

“songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.”

— Don McLean

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter…

— Lily King

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever…

— Tom Chapin

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who…

— Doc Pomus

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do…

— James Taylor

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here?…

— Bob Weir

Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a…

— Darrelle Revis

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

— Ahmet Ertegun

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

— Leonard Cohen

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write…

— Ian Anderson

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now…

— Billy Joel

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the…

— Barbara Holland

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash…

— Kevin Nealon

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but…

— Alex Chilton

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse.…

— Cass McCombs

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.…

— Frank Zappa

America's a funny place. Every time I've come over it just feels absolutely gigantic and massive. I've always had good shows there,…

— Conor O'Brien

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

— Noah Kahan

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

— Mike Love

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

— Ester Dean

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

— Tom Waits

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

— Ben Harper

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

— Kris Kristofferson

Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

— Rachael Yamagata

The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.

— Stuart Price

I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!

— KT Tunstall

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

— Donovan

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

— Art Alexakis

All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

— Eddie Argos

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

— Olivia Newton-John

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

— Mike Gordon

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus