Able Quote by Jeffrey Osborne

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

— Ray Davies

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of…

— Carly Simon

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at…

— Simon Cowell

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

— Mike Gordon

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 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

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album…

— Johnny Ramone

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

— Mark Knopfler

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

— James Murphy

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

— Christopher Cross

Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda…

— John Prine

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman