Come up Quote by Barry McGuire

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there…

— John Mellencamp

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

— Bobby Bare

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

— Barry Mann

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

— Mel Brooks

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

— Lyle Lovett

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

— James Murphy

If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to…

— John Mellencamp

My view is that the great songwriting happened between 1920 and 1960. We're all, in our different ways, descended from the great songwriters of that era.

— Leslie Bricusse

I'd like to eventually be known as someone who emerged as a songwriter.

— Jason Bonham

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

— Sharleen Spiteri

In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find…

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys…

— Mark Chesnutt