Songwriters Quotes - Page 17

• Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Two, Nashville

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• L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

  Shooter Jennings

  Running, Nashville, Weather

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• Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

  Brad Delson

  Alternatives, Singers, Classic

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• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Inspiration, Careers

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Book, Successful, Thinking

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• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Depressing, Comforting

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

  Ashley Judd

  Christmas, Piano, People

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• I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

  Avicii

  Writing, Lines, Want

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

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

  Pete Best

  America, Band, Stuff

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• What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

  Sonny Bono

  Mean, Successful, Tvs

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• I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

  Wes Borland

  Feelings, Wanted, Storyteller

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• I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

  Kenny Chesney

  Artist, Names, Get Better

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• I'm a songwriter first.

  Carole King

  Firsts

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• I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Inward

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• As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

  Stone Gossard

  Stuff, Clarity, Kind

  "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". INterview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, School, Boys

  "Love Lessons From Ellie Goulding". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. October 9, 2012.

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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  Salma Hayek

  Baby, Grandmother, Medicine

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• I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.

  Hunter Hayes

  Artist, Black, Development

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• 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.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hate, Moving, Player

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• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  Faith Hill

  Nashville, World, Towns

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• And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

  Jessie J

  Hate, Thinking, People

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

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• I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

  Jessie J

  Artist, Bonus, Wanted

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

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• I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

  Robin Gibb

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

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

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• First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

  Kenny Chesney

  Firsts

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