Songwriters Quotes - Page 12

• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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• (For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Important, Musician, Development

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• Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

  Steve Earle

  Stories, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.

  Bonnie McKee

  Teenager, Coffee, Choices

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or rock or whatever. I'm always listening to music and trying to learn from other songwriters and how they tap into certain emotions and communicate more clearly.

  Trip Lee

  Artist, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

  Howard Lawrence

  Thinking, Hands, Problem

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

  Hoodie Allen

  Jobs, New York, Cities

  Source: blog.iluvlola.com

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• 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.

  Hoodie Allen

  Artist, Thinking, Important

  Source: blog.iluvlola.com

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• I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers.

  Creed Bratton

  Morning, Writing, Night

  Source: www.talive.com

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• I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.

  Jack Johnson

  Song, Guitar, Hands

  Source: jackjohnsonweb.yaia.com

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• Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

  George Harrison

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Girl, Teenage, Views

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

  Ne-Yo

  Artist, Simple, Periods

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• I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?

  Glen Hansard

  Thinking, Class, Issues

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.

  Brett Dennen

  Heart, Criticism, Easy

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• I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.

  Mark Stoermer

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Mark Stoermer's Spell". Interview with Christina Cambria, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Trying, Problem, Conflict

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

  Steve Earle

  Bob, Moments, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.

  Steve Earle

  Jobs, Simple, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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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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• 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 [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

  David Bennun

  Interesting, Literature, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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• 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.

  Jeff Feuerzeig

  Art, Madness, Poet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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