Songwriters Quotes - Page 15

• I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Knows, Greater

  Source: www.pbs.org

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

  Jack White

  Heart, Past, Desire

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.

  Alan Licht

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. September 21, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Cutting, Jail

  "An Interview With Pete Seeger In Beacon, NY". Interview with Pete Mason, nysmusic.com. January 31, 2014.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

  Lesley Ann Warren

  Girl, Country, New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Play, Trying

  "Musician-actor Lyle Lovett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 24, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

  Ester Dean

  Girl, Fighting, Labels

  "Hitmaker Ester Dean on Songwriting, Fighting and Eating Hot Dogs (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Believe, Long, Crafts

  4 Copy quote

• The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.

  Cris Judd

  People, Dancer, Majority

  "Dirty Dancing: The Secrets Behind Its Sexy TV Makeover". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.tvguide.com. December 06, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

  Noel Gallagher

  Past, Oasis, Years

  "Sir Paul has just written manure for years", www.scotsman.com. July 2, 2002.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

  Art Alexakis

  Rocks, People, Singers

  "Clearly A Success / Art Alexakis isn't typical flighty rock star". Interview with James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 23, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

  Sly Stone

  Weapons, Pens

  8 Copy quote

• It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, World, Singers

  7 Copy quote

• I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Writing, Successful, Age

  28 Copy quote

• I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?

  Glen Hansard

  Thinking, Class, Issues

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

  Elle Varner

  Girl, Positivity, People

  4 Copy quote

• The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.

  Stuart Price

  Lines, Producers

  4 Copy quote

• John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Hard Work, Usa

  4 Copy quote

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

  Noah Baumbach

  Records, Singers, Dylan

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

  Mose Allison

  Daughter, Style, Age

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

  Christopher Cross

  Artist, Nashville, Community

  11 Copy quote

• Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

  Lyle Lovett

  Singers, Sensitive, Compelling

  4 Copy quote