It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it. — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips Copy Share Image
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan 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
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
I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi Copy Share Image
My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself. — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser 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 always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument. — Joe Cocker Copy Share Image
