Songwriters Quotes - Page 10

• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  Barry Mann

  Records, Should, Producers

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• 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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• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Rocks, Albums

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• I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

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• I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

  Art Alexakis

  Rocks, Stories, Band

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• I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.

  Chad Kroeger

  Firsts, Attributes, Chad

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• I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Speech, Language, Rhythm

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• I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

  John Legend

  Artist, Singers, Working With Others

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• I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Progress, Done, Want

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• When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Giving, Good Riddance

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• I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

  Kina Grannis

  Thinking, Special, Singers

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• I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.

  Tony Vincent

  Return Back, Long, Choices

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• Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

  Catie Curtis

  Stars, Writing, Heart

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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• America's a funny place. Every time I've come over it just feels absolutely gigantic and massive. I've always had good shows there, but I just go and come back, feeling like another singer/songwriter in a sea of thousands of singer/songwriters. I don't really know what "breaking it in America" is or means. I just focus on touring day-by-day, and show-by-show, and see where it goes.

  Conor O'Brien

  Mean, America, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Writing, Play, Long

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

  Martin Fry

  Song, Eras, Used

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• I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

  Rico Love

  Song, Cutting, Excuse You

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• It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

  Christine Lavin

  Song, Believe, Struggle

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• Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  People, Attention, Paid

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

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• Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

  Black Francis

  Age, Musician, Records

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• And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

  Ashley Judd

  Christmas, Piano, People

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• I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

  Avicii

  Writing, Lines, Want

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

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