Songwriters Quotes

Songwriters Quote of the day

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

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

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I'm a songwriter first.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news. 2016 please end.

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.