Songwriters Quotes
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Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
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Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write every day, and I'm definitely not one of those guys. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just kind of what I do.
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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.
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People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.
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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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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
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My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters.
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The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.
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I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.
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A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
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I love female singer-songwriters!
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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.
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I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.
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As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
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Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can't do. Like with New Bums and Donovan Quinn, he is seriously one of the greatest songwriters in terms of words that is alive right now. So I really wanted to play with him to experience that, to play music with these really great words.
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All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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I think that, you know, the odds are good, because they are good songwriters, they're a good band, they're a great band, and they can play
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I do think that most songwriters are exhibitionists in some way, wanting to put all of their thoughts and emotions and feelings out there for people to look at.
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All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
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From the moment Bob Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was so much better than everybody else around.
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I'm not a natural songwriter.
