Shocked Quote by Nina Nastasia

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center…

— Ben Folds

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

— John Hiatt

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a…

— Melissa Manchester

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize…

— Annie Lennox

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

— Gabrielle Aplin

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is…

— Frank Ocean

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

— Michael Kiwanuka

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that…

— Gabrielle Aplin

Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly…

— Colbie Caillat

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is…

— Zachary Levi

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact…

— Steve Earle

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

— Lykke Li