Come Quote by Chris de Burgh

It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.

— Chris de Burgh

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

— Albert Hammond, Jr

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But…

— Jakob Dylan

Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs.…

— Exene Cervenka

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone…

— Carole King

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

I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather…

— Jimmy Cliff

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

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would…

— Beth Gibbons

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

— John Phillips

The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was…

— Jakob Dylan