Songwriter Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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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'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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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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I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
Finneas
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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.
Bryce Wilson
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I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.
Robbie Williams
Take That
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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.
PJ Morton
Maroon 5
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Every collaborator, everyone that is a songwriter, has ideas that are mediocre.
Pierre Bouvier
Simple Plan
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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.
Esther Renay Dean
