Influence Quote by Amanda Shires

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a…

— Ester Dean

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

— Matthew Ramsey

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the…

— Steve Earle

Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.

— Mary Gauthier

I think it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else would notice.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

— John Phillips

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

— Jimmy Buffett

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

— Barry Mann

That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go…

— Ron Mael

Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a beat and…

— Darrelle Revis

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

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off…

— Jason Isbell