Evolution Quote by Amanda Shires

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

— Rosanne Cash

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

— Shawn Colvin

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

— Tom Kitt

I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar 'cause my…

— Dion DiMucci

I knew I wanted to make music since I was young.

— Lil Tjay

I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing…

— LIZ

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing…

— Alice Merton

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

— Richard Ashcroft

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen -…

— Gwen Stefani

When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing,…

— Jason Reeves

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs…

— Danny Jacob

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura