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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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• None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter

  Noel Gallagher

  College, Doe, Different

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• Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Writing, Law

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

  Andrew Gold

  Thinking, Singers, Periods

  "Andrew Gold obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

  David Fricke

  Song, Art, Ostriches

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• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Suits

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• Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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• Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

  Andrew Bird

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

  Ashthon Jones

  Continuing

  Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Fans

  "KISS’ Paul Stanley: ‘I Don’t Need The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’". Interview with Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Uplifting, Song, Writing

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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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• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  Ed Sheeran

  Cds, Dublin, Want

  "Interview with UK Pop Sensation Ed Sheeran". Interview with Marian Tuin, www.axs.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

  Robert Smith

  Class, Musician, Honestly

  The Hit magazine, 1985.

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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 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 was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

  Gwen Stefani

  Writing, People, Feel Good

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• I'm not a natural songwriter.

  Rod Stewart

  Natural

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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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• She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more like 'This is how it's done here. It turned her off - not specific people, but the whole system turned her off. And she wanted to do something, I think, that she could play for her friends in Texas and they would say, Okay, well you're still Miranda.

  Frank Liddell

  Writing, Thinking, Texas

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• The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

  Tori Amos

  Music, Important, Sometimes

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• As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing

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• I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

  Noel Gallagher

  Oasis, Musician, Talented Musicians

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

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• Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Careers, Support

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• Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Ideas, Vision

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