Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize. — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful. — Ben Lovett Copy Share Image
Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if thats all youve got,… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either.… — Barry McGuire 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
I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Several years ago, I was asked by a songwriter's association to go to Nashville - I think it involved some kind of… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me. — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
