Songwriters Quotes - Page 18

• Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, Blessed, People

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• If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

  Amos Lee

  Running, Novelists, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Successful, Track, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

  Greg Brown

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

  Beth Orton

  Thinking, Ideas, Negative

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.

  Ester Dean

  People, Legacy, Care

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• I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

  Ester Dean

  People, Creative, Reason

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• I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

  Ester Dean

  Song, People, Want

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• I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

  Lou Doillon

  Song, Drawing, Singing

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• As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

  Ben Harper

  Years, Two, May

  "Musicians Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 21, 2013.

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• There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Simple, Simplicity

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, People

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Sly Stone

  Weapons, Pens

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• 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

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• 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

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• I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

  Annie Lennox

  Dream, Powerful, Writing

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Lying, Hate, Moving

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• Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Talking, People, Records

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

  Shane Filan

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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