Songwriters Quotes - Page 21

• Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

  John Phillips

  Cases

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• One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Artist, People

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

  Bent Saether

  Understanding, Musical, Sooner Or Later

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Writing, Listeners

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• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Rick Wakeman

  Cousin, Class, Stuff

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Dad

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• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

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

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• I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Missing, Noses

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• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

  Melissa Manchester

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

  John Prine

  Song, Sound, Stuff

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• I am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As a songwriter, publisher and friend...there is no better home than Kobalt!

  Desmond Child

  Taken, Home, Levels

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• He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.

  Eminem

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

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• Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Song

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• The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

  Chuck D

  Writing, Technology, Reality

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Sky, Pieces, Jewelry

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• Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Able, Kind

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• A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Together

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

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• I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

  Trey Songz

  Singing, Music Love, I Love Music

  "Trey Songz Answers Fan Questions". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2011.

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• A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

  Ronald Isley

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

  Dave Edmunds

  Guitar, Way, Compliment

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• As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

  Neil Diamond

  Different, Exciting

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  Zachary Levi

  Thinking, Firsts, Singers

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

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• I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

  Brandi Carlile

  Intellectual, Titles, Truth Is

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.

  John Mellencamp

  Bars, Use, Ease

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