Songwriters Quotes - Page 3

• Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

  Tracy Chapman

  Creating, Writing Songs, Mysterious

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

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• Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

  Pete Seeger

  Writing, Ideas, Lucky

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• A lot of people, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and a lot of people have written for other people, and of course Bruno Mars. So I think it's a great way to break into the industry and show people what you can do and show them your talent and people tend to listen a little differently to your own music as an artist, when you've proven yourself as a good songwriter for other artists.

  Bonnie McKee

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

  Don Henley

  Wind, Singers, Sometimes

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

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• The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

  Bob Weir

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

  Christina Aguilera

  World

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• I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Songbirds, Wanted, Known

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• You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

  Luke Bryan

  Singers, Singer-songwriters, Performers

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• As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

  Mel Brooks

  Mean, Guy, Fans

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• I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Want, Singers, Pops

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I'm not a natural songwriter.

  Rod Stewart

  Natural

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• I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

  Beth Ditto

  Voice, Body, Persons

  "Beth Ditto: 'I'm constantly learning how to be confident'". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2012.

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• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  PJ Harvey

  Film, Poet, Makers

  "Interview PJ Harvey: 'I feel things deeply. I get angry, I shout at the TV, I feel sick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Stories, Wanted

  "This much I know: Kazuo Ishiguro". Interview with Chris Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

  Nanci Griffith

  Song, Mean, Hands

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• A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

  Mike Gordon

  Songwriting, Singer-songwriters, Collaborators

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Musician, Would Be, Saws

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• I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

  Butch Hancock

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

  Willie Nelson

  Wise, Writing, Cynical

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.144, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

  Stephen Foster

  Home, Names, Long

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• Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

  Rick Springfield

  Song, Writing, Cameras

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• I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

  Sara Bareilles

  Sound, Singers, Singer-songwriters

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• I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

  Keith Richards

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

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• I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Pushing

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• My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Guitar, Play

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