Songwriters Quotes - Page 6

• I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

  Ashthon Jones

  Continuing

  Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in Sugar Money, no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

  Bo Bice

  Guy, Band, Care

  "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2005.

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  Ian Anderson

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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• I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

  Regina Spektor

  Beautiful, Song, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Suits

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• With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

  David Fricke

  Song, Art, Ostriches

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• To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Musician, Canvas

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• I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

  Andrew Gold

  Thinking, Singers, Periods

  "Andrew Gold obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

  Jimmy Webb

  Fishing, Kind, Fisherman

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• I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

  Rosanne Cash

  Want, Grew, Performers

  "Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2010.

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• I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about.

  Roddy Woomble

  Song, Never Trust

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour

  Chuck Leavell

  Real, Honor, Special

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Uplifting, Song, Writing

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• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Artist, Helping Others, Soul

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• I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

  Rick Nielsen

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Falling In Love, Fit

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• For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

  Ryan Adams

  Jobs, Voice, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• All songwriters are links in a chain.

  Pete Seeger

  Links, Chains

  "American Icons: Pete Seeger". Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 07, 2010.

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• People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Names, Play

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• I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

  Tom Cochrane

  Stars, Thinking, Firsts

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• There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Stealing, Term, Screenwriters

  "Mann Crazy". Interview with Chris Willman, ew.com. January 7, 2000.

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• Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to the fact that she is Australian. This affords her a totally different attitude as an artist than traditional American contributors to this genre. Audrey is one of the most honest original artists I know.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Attitude, Believe, Artist

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