Songwriter Quotes · Page 9

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something…

— Jon Pardi

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

— John Legend

“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

— Taylor Momsen

“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are…

— Dierks Bentley

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

— Nancy Wilson

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

— Linda Perry

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there…

— Dolly Parton

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let…

— Dorothy Fields

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such,…

— P. J. Harvey

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine…

— John Prine

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when…

— India.Arie

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself.…

— Dolly Parton

Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it…

— J. J. Cale

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

None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none…

— Noel Gallagher

I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's…

— Dolly Parton

I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but…

— Brett Dennen

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have…

— Amy Ray

The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the…

— Dan Mangan

My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have…

— Mirah

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative…

— Ronnie Dunn

I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my…

— Kara DioGuardi

“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have…

— Jimmy Cliff

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

— Jake Bugg

I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.

— Roland Orzabal

My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all…

— Park Bo-gum

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

— John Mellencamp

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.

— Danny Brown

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

— Ashthon Jones

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

— Jill Sobule

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

— Rick Nielsen

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others…

— Jessie J

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

— Van Morrison

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."

— Vince Gill

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

— Birdy

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

— Luis Fonsi