Songwriters Quotes · Page 7

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

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

Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire…

— Morgan James

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the…

— Catherine Hardwicke

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

— Jessica Origliasso

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of…

— Steve Earle

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because…

— Smokey Robinson

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting…

— David Hepworth

It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.

— Matthew Ramsey

I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we…

— Rodney Crowell

I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the…

— India.Arie

As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at…

— LeAnn Rimes

I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never…

— Jack Johnson

I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock…

— Langhorne Slim

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old…

— Denis Leary

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,…

— Paul Banks

Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping…

— Lizz Wright

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

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

— KT Tunstall

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

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the…

— Rufus Wainwright

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

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

— Jon Foreman

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful…

— Ashley Judd

There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary…

— Oleta Adams

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is…

— Jason Mraz

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push…

— Burt Bacharach

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

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

— Frank Zappa

These days the whole 'American Idol' and 'The X Factor' and all that stuff has opened up doors for songwriters like me.…

— Chesney Hawkes

I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that…

— Al Jarreau

In reality - and we've always said this - yes, we are girls, women, but, first and foremost, we're musicians and we're…

— Charlotte Caffey

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes,…

— Alan Light

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I…

— PJ Harvey