Come Quote by Chris de Burgh

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

— Chris de Burgh

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

— Leonard Cohen

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

— Graham Russell

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 something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more…

— Jeff Tweedy

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter…

— Michael Bacon

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a…

— P. J. Harvey

I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think…

— Mirah

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

— PJ Harvey

I don't think any songwriter who comes up through playing clubs can really claim to have independently developed their art. All along the way…

— David Berman

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people…

— Alan Licht