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I liked writing, I liked performing, but I couldn't sing or dance.

— Taylor Tomlinson

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

— Leon Russell

I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need to have…

— Eric Carmen

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song,…

— Johan Renck

I really didn't like anything the way I liked playing music and writing songs.

— Tyler Childers

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was…

— Gary Numan

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on…

— Matthew Sweet

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The…

— Bryan Adams

I've always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared... I was never really that comfortable with…

— Jimmy Somerville

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

— John Lurie

I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued…

— Jason Mraz