Songwriters Quotes - Page 24

• If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Thinking, Favorite Song, Ifs

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• The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

  Lauren Hart

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.

  Mary Travers

  Issues, People, Important

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• You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Writing, Eye

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• What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

  Kevin Nealon

  Coffee, Guy, House

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• My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

  John Hiatt

  Song, Attitude, Writing

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• Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

  Rupert Holmes

  Song, Writing, Cab Drivers

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• What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

  Lucinda Williams

  Grateful, Force, Constant

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• Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Facts, Music Is

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• I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

  Travis Tritt

  Moving, People, Goal

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• I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

  Taylor Swift

  "Platinum Underdog: Why Taylor Swift Is the Biggest Pop Star in the World". Interview with Jody Rosen, www.vulture.com. November 17, 2013.

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• As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, People

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• I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Focus, Together

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

  Carly Simon

  Artist, Radio, Singers

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• I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

  Neil Diamond

  Deities, Kind, Accepted

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• When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

  Neil Diamond

  Three, Bars, Firsts

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• It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Song, Player, People

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• I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel.

  Mark Farner

  Song, Mind, Trying

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• It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.

  Phil Coulter

  Song, Writing, Men

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• Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it all. A songwriter's job is to go digging around in his soul. And come up with, and put to paper, what others can't express about the soul itself.

  Radney Foster

  Jobs, Soul, Digging

  Interview with Shawna Ortega, www.songfacts.com. September 15, 2007.

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• I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that.

  Ralph McTell

  Islands, Scotland, Trying

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• There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I do. I started with classical, then country, then blues, and after that I started listening heavily to Motown and gospel. My earliest efforts as a songwriter were soul. Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Fontella Bass are just a few of the names that come to mind as the God's of soul and Motown.

  Rory Block

  Country, Knights, Names

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• I come from a musical family. My dad was in a group in the 70s, The Hudson Brothers. Now he's a songwriter and producer. So, I just kind of grew up with music and it was something I always knew I wanted to do.

  Sarah Hudson

  Brother, Dad, Musical

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• I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

  Ne-Yo

  Play, Acting, Roles

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• I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

  Rosanne Cash

  Torches, Honorable, Profession

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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