Singer-songwriter Quotes

• Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

  

  Steve Morse
  • Power
  • Subtle
  • Inventive

• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic cocktail!

  

  Don Was
  • Good
  • Great
  • America

• Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.

  

  Don Was
  • Great
  • Power
  • Star

• There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

  

  Lily King
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Philanthropist

• I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Women
  • Came Up
  • Lilith Fair era

• 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 Eurythmics
  • Dream
  • Poetry
  • Emotions

• Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Band
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Play Guitar

• I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

  

  Bert Jansch
  • Playing
  • Guitar Player
  • Singer-songwriter

• Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?

  

  John Prine
  • Songs
  • Recognize
  • Pedestal