Songwriters Quotes - Page 14

• I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it part of my life. I usually can't write lyrics down, but I can sure tell that story. You've got to make people feel the hurt and love in each song.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, Hurt, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

  Leonard Cohen

  Looks, Serious, Emphasis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [George Michael] is a great songwriter and he makes very classy videos, like me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Video, Like Me

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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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• 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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• Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

  Noel Gallagher

  Past, Oasis, Years

  "Sir Paul has just written manure for years", www.scotsman.com. July 2, 2002.

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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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• We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.

  Don Alias

  Writing, Talking, Light

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• I'm taking drama classes, they say I'm a natural actress. I think it's just because I talk a lot. I'm also learning how to play guitar and piano. Piano is really hard though. My dad is teaching me and I just get so confused because the chords are so different, but by learning I hope to be able to be a songwriter as well.

  Lindsay Pagano

  Dad, Confused, Drama

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• I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

  Mark Chesnutt

  Art, Guy, Kevin

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• "Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

  Rosanne Cash

  Country, Marketing, Term

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.

  Rosanne Cash

  Fall, Self, Rivers

  "Interview with Rosanne Cash on Coping, Writing and Savoring the Pleasures of Home". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

  Bryan Hayes

  Texas, Sides, Crosses

  "Bryan Hayes To Play At Sweet T Market". Interview With Linley Stringer, maroonweekly.com. December 2, 2015.

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• Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.

  Kate Nash

  Writing, Independent, Artist

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• This world is bullshit. And just because I appear in music video wherein I am in my underwear, and make young women feel not good enough so that they become anorxeic; and okay, maybe because of that I became popular more quickly than other singers who are, I don't know, maybe more talented or better songwriters. That doesn't matter because, and... um... my boyfriend is a magician, and he can pull a quarter out of your ear and say things like 'We have not met before have we?' Go with yourself.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Bullshit, Not Good Enough, My Boyfriend

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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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• My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

  Sly Stone

  Weapons, Pens

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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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• I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Writing, Successful, Age

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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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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Lying, Hate, Moving

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• Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Talking, People, Records

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics they're the most direct, non-figurative words, like, 'I like you, I like you,'... and that's it, for the whole song. People would go, 'Ooh, this guy's Dylan or something.' It gives me a lot more respect for songwriters, actually.

  Demetri Martin

  Song, I Like You, Writing

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