Finishers Quote by Mirah

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

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about…

— KT Tunstall

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

— Bjork

It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use them. They…

— Mark Foster

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

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I don't actually think that I'm a great songwriter - I'm just a really prolific songwriter, and I write so much that some of…

— Olivia Rodrigo

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

— Paul Westerberg

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that…

— Willie Nelson

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

— Dierks Bentley

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

— Greg Brown

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

— Graham Russell