Songwriters Quotes - Page 18

• My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Giving, Wife

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• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Rocks, Albums

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• As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

  Bjork

  Writing, Singers, Singer-songwriters

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• I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

  Bjork

  Singers, Scientist, Singer-songwriters

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

  James Blunt

  Taken, Inspiration, School

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• As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

  Bono

  Believe, Heart, Views

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

  Mel Brooks

  Song, Writing, Writing Songs

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• I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

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• The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Spotlight, Singers

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• I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

  Jewel

  Fun, Mean, Writing

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• I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

  Jewel

  Real, People, Mentor

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Insane

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• Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

  Shakira

  Song, Writing, Challenges

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

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Important, Skins

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• One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

  Taylor Swift

  Successful, Goal, Want

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• Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

  Taylor Swift

  Curiosity, Max, Enough

  "Exclusive: Taylor Swift Talks About ‘Red,’ How to ‘Begin Again’ With New Love, and Being the World’s Best-Behaved Bad-Ass". Interview with Chris Willman, www.yahoo.com. October 23, 2012.

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• There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

  Taylor Swift

  Reading, Artist, Example

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• I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

  James Taylor

  Writing Songs, Pretending, Songwriting

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

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• After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

  Tori Amos

  Player, Piano, Singers

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• I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

  Willie Aames

  Thinking, Artist, Average

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• It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

  John Mellencamp

  Responsibility, Media, News

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• I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

  Bruno Mars

  How You Feel, Down And, Hardest

  Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

  Billy Joel

  Mean, Singers, Opinion

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• I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

  Elton John

  Play, Musician, I Can

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• Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

  Kesha

  Fun, Writing, Firsts

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

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