Singer-songwriters Quotes - Page 14

• I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

  James Taylor

  Writing Songs, Pretending, Songwriting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Writing, Eye

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• Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

  Tracy Chapman

  Creating, Writing Songs, Mysterious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

  Tyler Hilton

  Guy, Singers, Yeah

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.

  Mary Travers

  Issues, People, Important

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• I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

  Annie Lennox

  Dream, Powerful, Writing

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• For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.

  Cornelius Eady

  Song, Writing, Singers

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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• 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.

  Art Alexakis

  Rocks, People, Singers

  "Clearly A Success / Art Alexakis isn't typical flighty rock star". Interview with James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 23, 1997.

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• If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

  Amos Lee

  Running, Novelists, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

  Tyler Hilton

  School, Rocks, Band

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Inspirational, Dance, Country

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• It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, World, Singers

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• When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Reality, Guitar

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

  Frank Ocean

  Moving, Artist, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

  Kim Dickens

  Country, Dad, Lying

  Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Hard Work, Usa

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• I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

  Elle Varner

  Girl, Positivity, People

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• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  Sam Tsui

  Writing, Voice, Littles

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

  Lykke Li

  People, Want, Singers

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• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  Zachary Levi

  Thinking, Firsts, Singers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love female singer-songwriters!

  Melissa Benoist

  Female, Singers, Female Singers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Believe, Creativity

  "Brandi Carlile on Her New Live Album, Admiration for Elton John and Thoughts on Lady Gaga". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Rocks, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

  Kevin Nealon

  Coffee, Guy, House

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

  Jill Sobule

  Thinking, Different, Stories

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