Songwriters Quotes
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I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
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Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
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It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
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Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
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I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
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In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
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Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.
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Me and Eddie really hit it off as songwriters and also as just people. It lasted three years. I don't regret one moment. They were great to me.
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I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.
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There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.
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Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.
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As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
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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.
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I don't get along with many people, especially in studios. I'm quite blunt and I know what I want - and songwriters are very sensitive people.
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I'm a songwriter first.
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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.
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The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.
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I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.
