Songwriters Quotes - Page 5

• Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

  Jamie Cullum

  Voice, Parks, Lizzy

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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 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 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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• Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

  Cub Koda

  Artist, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

  Chris Hillman

  Light, Shining, Horizon

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• I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

  Tom Cochrane

  Stars, Thinking, Firsts

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• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Writing, People, Musician

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• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Artist, Funny Things

  "Melissa Etheridge: Ramping back up with 'Breakdown'". Interview with Brooke Alexander, www.cnn.com.

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• What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

  will.i.am

  People, Singers, West

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

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• Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, Two, Dollars

  "$2 Billion and Counting". news.spotify.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 07, 2010.

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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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• All songwriters are links in a chain.

  Pete Seeger

  Links, Chains

  "American Icons: Pete Seeger". Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 28, 2014.

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• The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Falling In Love, Fit

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• I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

  Alex Chilton

  Thinking, People, Clubs

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• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  Billy Bragg

  Honesty, Writing, Personality

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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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