Songwriter Quotes

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

Hate, Guitar, Put

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.
Kid Rock

Best, Player, Singer

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Steve Earle

Best, Coffee, Whole

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
Tom Waits

School, Understand, Try

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Live, Inward, Tower

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
Katy Perry

Humor, Sad, Cool

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
Mel Brooks

Love, Writing, Songs

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
John Frusciante

Time, Feeling, Guitar

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
Billy Joel

Bad, Opinion, Means

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
Elton John

Love, Play, Musicians

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
Miley Cyrus

Life, Love, Long

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.
Kesha

Fun, Writing, Else

I'm not a natural songwriter.
Rod Stewart

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
John Mayer

Guitar, Wanted, Blues

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

Time, Social, Both

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
Bryan Adams

Time, Writing, Done

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

Lifetime, Musician, Stages

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
Ellie Goulding

School, Feeling, Writing

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
James Taylor

Started, Pretending, Turned

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

Life, Good, Feeling

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

Great, Hope, Control

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
Jewel

Fun, Writing, Mean

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

Person, Body, Voice

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
Jennifer Lopez

Time, Movies, Done

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
Nate Ruess

Sad, Hate, Whole

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

Write, Band, Songs

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.
Rick Springfield

Real, Ego, Songs

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

Written, Class, Musician

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 Patrick Morrissey

Music, Once, Inspired

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

Singer, Invisible, West

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