Songwriters Quotes - Page 8

• There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Stealing, Term, Screenwriters

  "Mann Crazy". Interview with Chris Willman, ew.com. January 7, 2000.

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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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• 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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• You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

  Dierks Bentley

  Life, Dirty, Writing

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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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• It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me, I don't worry about it, but I know there might come a day when I can't write anymore, or don't have good song ideas or the fire to do it anymore.

  Rodney Clawson

  Song, Writing, Fire

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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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• 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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• On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.

  Rodney Crowell

  Loss, Simplicity, Grace

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

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing

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• Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

  Daryl Hall

  Hero, Singers, Influence

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

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• I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song."

  Mirah

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

  Mirah

  Hard Times, Way, Horns

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.

  Mirah

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that.

  Mirah

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

  India.Arie

  People, Soul, Style

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.

  India.Arie

  Song, Emotional, Mind

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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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 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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• 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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