Songwriter Quotes
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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.
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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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As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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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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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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Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.
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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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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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I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.
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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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Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
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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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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 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 a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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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.
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The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
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Every collaborator, everyone that is a songwriter, has ideas that are mediocre.
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I feel pretty good about the balance of being an artist and songwriter, now that I have my album in the works.
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It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.
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I'm a giutar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
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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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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.
