Songwriters Quotes

• 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
  • Time
  • Sort
  • Riffing

• 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
  • Inspiration
  • Melody
  • Makers

• People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Expect
  • Personalities
  • Egos

• 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.

  

  William Clark Green
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Things

• 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
  • Legacy
  • Brand
  • Producers

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

  

  Jimmy Webb
  • Position
  • Songwriters
  • Fisherman

• A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Songwriting
  • Collaborators
  • Lyricists

• My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters.

  

  Marcia Strassman
  • Musicians
  • Emotionally
  • Downfall

• 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
  • Music
  • Terms
  • Collaborate

• Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

  

  William Fitzsimmons
  • Understanding
  • Advice
  • Therapy

• It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • People
  • Comfort
  • Singers

• Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Stories
  • Middle
  • Expanding

• All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

  

  Eddie Argos
  • Favorite
  • Songwriters

• 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.

  

  John Prine
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Name

• As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Black
  • Interest
  • Voices

• 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
  • Giving
  • Peace
  • Fighting

• I love female singer-songwriters!

  

  Melissa Benoist
  • Female
  • Singers
  • Songwriters

• 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.

  

  William Beckett
  • Trying
  • Challenges
  • Certain

• 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
  • Political
  • Persons
  • Fabric

• 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
  • Band
  • Odds
  • Songwriters

• 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.

  

  Nina Gordon
  • Look
  • Emotions
  • Songwriters

• 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.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Crafts

• I'm not a natural songwriter.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Natural
  • Songwriters

• From the moment Bob Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was so much better than everybody else around.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Moments
  • Songwriters

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