The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much. — John Hiatt Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired… — MNEK Copy Share Image
You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“... and it was quite a sad thing, the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing.… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
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