Songwriter Quotes · Page 5

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

— Graham Russell

I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.

— David Berman

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

— Maren Morris

My sister's job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

— Sigrid

I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not.

— Declan McKenna

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

— John Hiatt

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

— J. J. Cale

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time…

— Kate Voegele

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I…

— Taylor Swift

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots…

— Skylar Grey

When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But you've really got…

— Julia Michaels

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to…

— Ezra Furman

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as…

— Sinead O'Connor

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing…

— Kara DioGuardi

I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for…

— Gregory Porter

“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and…

— Justin Vernon

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of…

— Willie Nelson

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an…

— Keith Richards

A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes…

— Maren Morris

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can…

— Kate Voegele

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and…

— Kate Voegele

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

— Danny Brown

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

— Damon Albarn

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

— Josh Silver

I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.

— Bill Kaulitz

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own…

— Kim Petras

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a…

— Rick Springfield

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

— Linda Perry

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

— Murray Head

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

— Tom Cochrane

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

— Lionel Richie

I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a…

— PJ Harvey

Working with Secondhand Serenade, I just felt like a songwriter, you know, working with another songwriter.

— John Popper

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha