Songwriter Quotes

• I’m the best songwriter of my generation. Ask me in 20 years about the Libertines.

  

  Johnny Borrell Razorlight
  • Best
  • Generation
  • Songwriter

• I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Girl
  • Fights
  • Record Labels

• A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Popular
  • Dangerous

• Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Family
  • Me
  • Discovery

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Rock
  • Things
  • Finest

• I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
  • Folk

• I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Progress
  • Interested
  • Consider

• I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Songwriter
  • Chris Martin

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Egotistic

• I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

  

  Kaskade
  • Artist
  • Describe
  • DJ

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• It became clear to me that the power was shifting from the artist to the songwriter, But the songwriters weren’t in a position to reap the benefits.

  

  Merck Mercuriadis
  • Artist
  • Benefits
  • Songwriter

• I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Always
  • Just
  • Songwriter

• I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • World
  • Good
  • Best

• I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Songwriter
  • Affects

• I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Appreciate
  • Songwriter

• I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Singer

• When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Signed

• I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.

  

  Mark Stoermer The Killers
  • People
  • Different
  • The Killers

• I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Rock
  • Player
  • Star

• The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Provide
  • Observer
  • Ammo

• Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Up
  • American
  • Help

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