Singer-songwriters Quotes - Page 12

• I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

  Brian McKnight

  People, Want, Singers

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• The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

  Andrew Bird

  Singers, Way, Songwriters

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• Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

  Pete Best

  America, Band, Stuff

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• After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

  Tori Amos

  Player, Piano, Singers

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• Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.

  Michel Martin

  Daughter, Powerful, Husband

  "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.

  M. Ward

  Song, Couple, Order

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• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Depressing, Comforting

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

  Jessie J

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

  Lucinda Williams

  Breakup, Song, Inspiration

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• I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!

  Sarah Weeks

  Cheating, Believe, School

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• My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.

  David Crosby

  Song, Years, Whales

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• A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

  Mike Gordon

  Songwriting, Collaborators, Has Beens

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.

  David Amram

  Class, Voice, Generations

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• Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Country, Song, Stupid

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• I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And I love the sex of singing with a beat; I like the sexiness of it. I think it's really where I'm from.

  John Waite

  Sex, Thinking, Choices

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• I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

  Bert Jansch

  Song, Thinking, Player

  Interview with Robin Cook, www.furious.com. December 2006.

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• Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

  Miranda Lambert

  Strong, Dad, Writing

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• I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

  Melissa Manchester

  Technology, Singers, Firsts

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• It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

  John Hiatt

  Writing, Singers, Performing

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• One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Artist, People

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

  Noah Baumbach

  Records, Singers, Dylan

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• The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Running, Song, Singers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

  James Bay

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.

  Don Was

  Stars, Singers, Brown

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• I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.

  Bonnie McKee

  Teenager, Coffee, Choices

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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