Songwriters Quotes - Page 10

• The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.

  Stevie Wonder

  Artist, Play, Exciting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

  will.i.am

  People, Singers, West

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

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• Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

  Stevie Wonder

  Rapper, Talking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

  Greg Brown

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• 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.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, Blessed, People

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• I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

  Ezra Furman

  Kids, Trying, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Stars, Hands, Trying

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• For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

  Steve Aoki

  Artist, Opportunity, Giving

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• I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

  Beth Orton

  Thinking, Ideas, Negative

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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

  Anne Lamott

  Broken, Invisible, Poet

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, 2012.

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• As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

  James Bay

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

  Billy Bragg

  Political, Honest, Theory

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• What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.

  Katy Perry

  Creativity, Who I Am, Doe

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Knows, Greater

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

  Ester Dean

  People, Creative, Reason

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• There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Simple, Simplicity

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, People

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.

  Ester Dean

  People, Legacy, Care

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• I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

  Ester Dean

  Song, People, Want

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• I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

  Lou Doillon

  Song, Drawing, Singing

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• If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

  Christopher Cross

  Artist, Nashville, Community

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• I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Successful, Track, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.

  Don Was

  Stars, Singers, Brown

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