224 Songwriter Quotes for You to Enjoy

I hated the thought of being just a songwriter. Mike Posner

Thought Hated Songwriter Just Being

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing. Murray Head

Songwriter Like Sing Singer Sound Hard Describe

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! Nanci Griffith

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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

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If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it. Natalie Prass

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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today. Otis Blackwell

Today Hate Songwriter Career Starting

Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter. Paul Rodgers

Amazing Brilliant Wilson Voice Songwriter

Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it. Paul Rodgers

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I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely. Paul Stanley

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You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever. Paul Westerberg

Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career. RaeLynn

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. Randy Houser

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well. Ray LaMontagne

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I think I was born to be a songwriter. Richard Ashcroft

Think Born Songwriter

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar. Rick Nielsen

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The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. Robin Gibb

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that. Ronald Isley

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When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't. Ryan Hurd

You Control Songs Songwriter Over Heard Get Which

That's a lonely place when you think that nobody wants to work with you, but in reality, what it is is they're just wanting to see you get good enough to get a publishing deal or to be a professional songwriter. Ryan Hurd

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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. Salma Hayek

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