Songwriters Quotes - Page 8

• Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Years, Waiting

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• I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

  Joe Cocker

  Thinking, Play, Able

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• Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

  Alex Turner

  School, Kids, Men

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.

  Karl Wolf

  Song, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from poets, who work without the frames songwriters get from melody, and I think lyrics should be considered as their own thing.

  John K. Samson

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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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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• 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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• Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

  Condola Rashad

  Careers

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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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• What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
  His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Dedication, Artist

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• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  Bryan Adams

  Clever, Media, People

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• I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

  Brett Dennen

  Song, Writing, College

  "10 Questions: Brett Dennen". Interview with Nichole Wagner, www.uncommonmusic.org. June 9, 2011.

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• I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Believe, Creativity

  "Brandi Carlile on Her New Live Album, Admiration for Elton John and Thoughts on Lady Gaga". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!

  Sarah Weeks

  Cheating, Believe, School

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• I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now are my idols, my generation's incredible songwriters. I've listened to so much music on the whole ride and I'm inspired by a lot of classic artists, but it's the people right next to me singing songs that are blowing my mind, if that makes any sense.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Artist, Idols

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Song, Writing, Matter

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Writing, Thinking, Six

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.

  Michel Martin

  Daughter, Powerful, Husband

  "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

  Jill Sobule

  Rocks, Guitar, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Ideas, Persons

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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