Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that. — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover. — Sam Tsui Copy Share Image
I am just beside myself about how the beautiful songwriters that I know, a lot of whom are women, and a lot… — Raye Copy Share Image
I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are -… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try… — Lamont Dozier Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
For 'Hey Monday,' there were songs that I co-wrote with songwriters or producers, but our last EP, the whole band did everything… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as… — Bruce Springsteen 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
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg 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
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 definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records. — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding. — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
![“Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is…” quote by Amelie Nothomb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70d/amelie-nothomb-1581_born_definitely-more-and-more-i-understand-th_1751287.jpg)
