Songwriter Quotes · Page 7

“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

— Lykke Li

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

— Paul Westerberg

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

— Poo Bear

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

— John Hiatt

It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

— Christina Aguilera

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.

— Julia Michaels

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

— Brandon Jones

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing…

— Lauv

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 may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it.…

— David Friedman

I've grown a lot as a singer and a songwriter, but also as a person. I communicate better with my band, and…

— Joel Madden

I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than…

— Soccer Mommy

The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the…

— Stevie Wonder

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously…

— Katie Stelmanis

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song,…

— John Mellencamp

As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to…

— Trip Lee

We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the…

— Andy Wilkinson

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the…

— Jason Mraz

“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When…

— Michael Bacon

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing…

— Randy Houser

“People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That…

— Charlotte Eriksson

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

— Paul Simon

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

— Sia Furler

If people don't think your crazy it means your not doing anything...

— Milana May

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

— Lights

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth…

— Mary Gauthier

I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself.

— Syd

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

— Billy Sherwood

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

— Joe Cocker

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

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I…

— Miley Cyrus

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was…

— Jewel

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really…

— Doug Martsch

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

The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else…

— Lauv