Songwriters Quotes
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All the songwriters that I worked with said they'd like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.
Lee Seung-hyun
Big Bang
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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
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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.
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters.
Marcia Strassman
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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.
Esther Renay Dean
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I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
Woody Guthrie
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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.
Ben Chasny
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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.
Steve Earle
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All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.
Eddie Argos
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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.
Mike Stoller
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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.
Steve Earle
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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
David Fricke