Trying Quote by Ron Mael

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

— 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

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

— Sharleen Spiteri

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm…

— Cass McCombs

Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.

— Mary Gauthier

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

— Eddie Rabbitt

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other…

— Paloma Faith

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

— Smokey Robinson

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

— Cass McCombs

I think it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else would notice.

— Olivia Rodrigo

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

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi