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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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• 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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• 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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• When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

  Don McLean

  Men, Thinking, Goes On

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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 traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

  Al Walser

  World, Singers, Producers

  "Exclusive: Al Walser's shock EDM Grammy nom is 'decades' of work" by Akshay Bhansali, www.mtv.com. December 7, 2012.

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• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Actors, Being True

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• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  Barry McGuire

  Mean, Used, Come Up

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• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  K. D. Lang

  Song, Understanding, Umbilical Cord

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

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• I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• 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.

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• I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Jobs, Artist, Weekend

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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