Songwriters Quotes - Page 12

• I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, People, Singers

  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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• I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

  Lukas Haas

  People, Style, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

  PJ Harvey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "PJ Harvey and John Parish". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 27, 2009.

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• And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, People, I Can

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• Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

  Dave Carter

  Alive, Telling The Truth, Andrew

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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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• I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live.  They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

  Daryl Stuermer

  Strong, Heart, Voice

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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 don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

  Tom T. Hall

  Struggle, Looks, Quitting

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• We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

  Matt Stone

  Song, Writing, Forever

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

  Jake Bugg

  Heart, Soul, Listening To Music

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

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• I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

  Mel Brooks

  Years, Songwriting

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. December 8, 2005.

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• What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.

  Katy Perry

  Creativity, Who I Am, Doe

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

  Ezra Furman

  Kids, Trying, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

  Anne Lamott

  Broken, Invisible, Poet

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, 2012.

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• My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

  Billy Bragg

  Political, Honest, Theory

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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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• As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Stars, Hands, Trying

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• For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

  Steve Aoki

  Artist, Opportunity, Giving

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• [Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.

  Michael Kosser

  Moving, Writing, Mourning

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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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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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Doe

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