Songwriters Quotes - Page 15

• I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

  Kevin Fowler

  Country, Style, Music Love

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• Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot when I'm doing my melodies because he's so simple, and he's just been great. He keeps me on my feet, very grounded, but he also puts me on a silver platter, which is always very nice. So it's been an incredible influence. It's like every time you work with somebody that's better that you are, you become greater.

  Lady Gaga

  Nice, Thinking, Simple

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• I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.

  Tom T. Hall

  Running, Philosophical, Mean

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• There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Creativity, Player, Two Sides

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that there have been times, especially with writing songs, where you sit in a room with somebody, and they could be a very well-respected songwriter, but for whatever reason, the chemistry is just not right.

  Dave Koz

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Song, Falling In Love, Artist

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• If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Writing, Want

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 02, 2016.

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• People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Singers

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

  James Blunt

  Clothes, People, Singers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

  Tori Amos

  Empowering, Storyteller, Vulnerability

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• I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

  Zoe McLellan

  Creative Juices, Singers, Closets

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• In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.

  M. Ward

  Song, Couple, Order

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• Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

  Bent Saether

  Understanding, Musical, Sooner Or Later

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

  Miranda Lambert

  Strong, Dad, Writing

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• I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

  Melissa Manchester

  Technology, Singers, Firsts

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• I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Children, Nuts, Evil

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• It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

  John Hiatt

  Writing, Singers, Performing

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• I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

  Shane Filan

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

  John Phillips

  Cases

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• One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Artist, People

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

  Wendy Starland

  Artist, Body, Enjoy

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.

  Andy Kim

  Song, Couple, Inspiration

  "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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• For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

  Tom Waits

  School, Listening, Trying

  Interview with Terry Gross, wyso.org. November 3, 2011.

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• If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Important, Want

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

  Cindy Cashdollar

  Beautiful, Unique, Way

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