Songwriters Quotes - Page 6

• I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

  Steven Morrissey

  Voice, Would Be, Wake Up

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• Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in Sugar Money, no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

  Bo Bice

  Guy, Band, Care

  "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2005.

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

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing

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• I love female singer-songwriters!

  Melissa Benoist

  Female, Singers, Singer-songwriters

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

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• As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Thinking, Projects

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• For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

  Ryan Adams

  Jobs, Voice, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

  Jimmy Webb

  Fishing, Kind, Fisherman

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

  Regina Spektor

  Beautiful, Song, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour

  Chuck Leavell

  Real, Honor, Special

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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'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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• Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

  Steve Morse

  Singers, Subtle, Offbeat

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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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• 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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• The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

  Cynthia Weil

  Business, Different, Needs

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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