Songwriter Quotes
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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The studying led me to the fact that I really am a songwriter and music is what I love to do, ... I also understood the patterns in my life and discovered that I wasn't so unique. I was very much like many other people who had a choice to get well and leave a narcissistic world or continue to struggle with it.
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Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.
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Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.
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I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
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When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.
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As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.
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Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.
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I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.
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Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I wanted to grow as a songwriter and talk about more things … about where we are in the world today, the tension, how divided we are as a country. It kind of felt like I was dumping a bunch of subject matter together and I made it in New Orleans so it sounded like Gumbo to me.
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I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.
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Every collaborator, everyone that is a songwriter, has ideas that are mediocre.
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I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.
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I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.
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The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.
