Songwriter Quotes
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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.
Steve Jones
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As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
Micky Dolenz
The Monkees
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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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As a songwriter, the minute you start having sex, you can totally see the difference in the writing. You become an adult - that's kind of the whole backbone of it, really, your identity as a person and what sex means to you.
Nick Jonas
Jonas Brothers
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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.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.
Dave Carter
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I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.
Leland
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I've always been a staunch supporter of songwriters' rights.
Claudia Brant
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When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.
Michael Bacon
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My first manager was Gordon Mills, who I'd met right at the beginning. We shared a flat in London and traveled with rock bands doing one-nighters. Later, he became a songwriter and manager whose stable was Tom Jones, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and myself.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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I mainly like to do singer/songwriter kind of stuff.
Hayley Orrantia
