People Quote by Sharleen Spiteri

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

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Smokey Robinson

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

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

— John Phillips

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

— Frankie Ballard

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

— Ryan Hurd

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

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

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

— Rosalia

People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But…

— Chris de Burgh

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