Singer-songwriters Quotes - Page 10

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  Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

  David Bowie

  Book, Reading, Oxford

  "FMO’s Final Interview With David Bowie". Interview with Johnnny, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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  You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

  Harry Styles

  Wall, Popular Song, Stories

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• There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Queens, Fun, Ice Queen

  "Her dark materials" by Michael Bracewell, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.

  Michael Franti

  Love, Positive, Thankful

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• Hope for everything, expect nothing.

  Darren Criss

  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

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• And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so smart like you graduated college, like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard.

  Drake

  Relationship, Smart, Humble

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• Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.

  Richie Havens

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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

  Luke Bryan

  Singers, Performers, Songwriters

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• There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Writing, Bob

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.

  Angela Aki

  Dream, Play, Singers

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, Stories, Singers

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• The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Swings, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.

  Van Morrison

  Heart, Bags, Singers

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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• The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

  Van Morrison

  Singers, Boring, Exciting

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• America's a funny place. Every time I've come over it just feels absolutely gigantic and massive. I've always had good shows there, but I just go and come back, feeling like another singer/songwriter in a sea of thousands of singer/songwriters. I don't really know what "breaking it in America" is or means. I just focus on touring day-by-day, and show-by-show, and see where it goes.

  Conor O'Brien

  Mean, America, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times. Women were making more money. Women were saying, "My voice counts. If we're going out on a Friday night, I don't want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life".

  Dar Williams

  Friday, Nice, Night

  "Dar Williams returns to Mortal City". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Singers, Adam, Songwriters

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• 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.

  Mick Hucknall

  Rip, News, Singers

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.

  Bonnie Raitt

  College, Years, Feminist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

  Cliff Martinez

  Writing, Two, Years

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

  James Blunt

  Clothes, People, Singers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

  Zoe McLellan

  Creative Juices, Singers, Closets

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• When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

  Van Morrison

  Trying, Energy, Different

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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