Guitar Quote by Doug Martsch

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about…

— Hozier

I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When I got…

— Zella Day

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to…

— Mary Gauthier

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

— J. J. Cale

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been…

— Jessie J

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in…

— Jade Bird

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

— Alex Ebert

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

— Shawn Colvin