Songwriters Quotes

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

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are 'go-to' songwriters that people choose.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

I was never a topical songwriter.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

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

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

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

Songwriters tell the truth.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

[George Michael] is a great songwriter and he makes very classy videos, like me.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

I love female singer-songwriters!

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

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 people.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.