Always Quote by Lyle Lovett

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a…

— Ester Dean

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

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

— Jimmy Buffett

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that…

— Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

— Tom T. Hall

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

— Barry Mann

There are so many songwriters that people don't know about. There's so many producers that people don't know about.

— Rosalia

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

— Sharleen Spiteri

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

— Smokey Robinson

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who…

— Frank Fairfield

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

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

— John Phillips