Songwriter Quotes
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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.
Jim Messina
Buffalo Springfield
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As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
Ben Harper
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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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.
Stevie Wonder
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Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.
Tim Finn
Crowded House
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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.
Cub Koda
Brownsville Station
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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.
Stevie Wonder
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I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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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.
Will Sheff
Okkervil River
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Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
Andy Fletcher
Depeche Mode
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As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.
Maren Morris
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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.
Finneas