Songwriters Quotes · Page 4

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

— Bart Millard

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets,

— Anonymous

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

— Joe Cocker

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

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

A girl that's a musician is just such a turn-on. Creative people who are songwriters.

— Calum Hood

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

— Leonard Cohen

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

— Bobby Bare

I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that…

— Al Jarreau

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on…

— Luke Bryan

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say…

— Lauren Hart

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

— Ezra Furman

Babyface is one of the top songwriters in the world ever, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have worked with everybody that…

— Algee Smith

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely…

— Howard Lawrence

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves…

— Cass McCombs

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community…

— Christopher Cross

There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,…

— Richard F. Thomas

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention…

— Melissa Manchester

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.…

— Alex Turner

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came…

— Frankie Valli

I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect…

— Damon Albarn

If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral,…

— India Arie

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with…

— Kacey Musgraves

I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and…

— Glen Hansard

You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent…

— Irving Berlin

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of…

— Rory Block

“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were…

— Alan Moore

Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot…

— Lady Gaga

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth…

— Paul Zollo

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to…

— Kenny Chesney

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a…

— Lauren Mayberry

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in…

— Bruce Springsteen

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

— Dave Carter

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

— Condola Rashad

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

— Isaac Hanson

In the past, being young, I might have been standoffish to working with other songwriters.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

— Lyle Lovett

I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

— Zoe McLellan

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

— Noah Baumbach