Singer-songwriters Quotes - Page 11

• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Artist, Funny Things

  "Melissa Etheridge: Ramping back up with 'Breakdown'". Interview with Brooke Alexander, www.cnn.com.

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• I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

  Sara Bareilles

  Sound, Singers, Traditional

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• I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Want, Singers, Pops

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

  Brian McKnight

  People, Want, Singers

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• There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

  Barry Mann

  Personality, Alcohol, Drug

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  Andrew Bird

  Singers, Way, Songwriters

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• 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.

  Pete Best

  America, Band, Stuff

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

  George Strait

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Song

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• It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

  Helen Slater

  Courage, Thinking, May

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• I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

  Andrew Gold

  Thinking, Singers, Periods

  "Andrew Gold obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's pulling it off, and I couldn't figure out a way to do it.

  Allison Moorer

  Country, Philosophy, Writing

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• Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a great songwriter. Tom Douglas - you can't get any better than that. I write a lot of stuff but it's got to stick.

  Tim McGraw

  Brother, Writing, Singers

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• Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Careers, Support

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• We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, producer, front man. We're the whole thing. You develop, it's not smugness, but this self-reliance, that can limit your creativity. When you're willing and able to invite others into it, you wind up getting a piece of work that's bigger and better than anything you ever imagined it could be.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

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• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

  Melissa Manchester

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

  Melissa Manchester

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• 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.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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• When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Way, My Favorite

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• Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

  John Lennon

  Song, Sleep, Writing

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• 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.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, People, Singers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Beautiful, Bob, Singers

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• Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to the fact that she is Australian. This affords her a totally different attitude as an artist than traditional American contributors to this genre. Audrey is one of the most honest original artists I know.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Attitude, Believe, Artist

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