We're at our best when Keith and Mick (are/aren't) getting along, ... As songwriters, they seem to be at their most creative when there's (harmony/tension). Go figure!
Ronnie Wood
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I'm a songwriter and I have commitments in Nashville, and I can't afford to be on the road for long periods. So extended tours just wouldn't work.
Victoria Venier
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
Rupert Holmes
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
Quincy Jones
Being able to offer a performing songwriter the opportunity for a spot on Mountain Stage -- with its international audience -- has been a very powerful vehicle for us. Mountain Stage has always been able celebrating the craft of the performing songwriter and that's what we're all about too.
Gar Ragland
The idea is to have the stage strewn with music from all the major songwriters and to let the members of the audience just pick their favorites.
Hershey Felder
I think he's just a great songwriter, and obviously, artist-wise, that speaks for itself.
Jason Aldean
Yeah, it can be a make-or-break thing. Absolutely. A performing songwriter can come to the Folk Alliance and play in front of a room full of people and have 60 or 70 gigs booked out of this thing.
Mark Mason
I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped.
Barry Gibb
I think that, you know, the odds are good, because they are good songwriters, they're a good band, they're a great band, and they can play.
David Fricke
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
Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents Elvis made on a record, I made 45 cents.
Andy Anderson
Violet: You always said I could grow up to be anything. Mr. Sanford: I never said "songwriter in New York.
Piper Perabo
Singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has a devoted cult following, but for those who have never heard of him and his wry sense of humor, now is your chance. Time and again, Hicks is referred to as a true American original and we are happy to host this ice cool daddy of swing.
Tracy Miller
Trent realized that this was his shot and went for it. He has an approach to music that I appreciate, he's studied great songwriters and is a very engaging person which separates him from others.
Doug Howard
There's a little more diversity in music, style and images, including a bilingual artist with a huge voice and a singer-songwriter cute hippie mom.
Anastasia Brown
A famously open gay singer-songwriter (told me) Luther was dying to have a boyfriend. It was an inside show business open secret.
Michael Musto
I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages.
Rupert Holmes
I think we've just started to find our own sound. And we've become more experienced songwriters and musicians. Also a lot has happened to us in our personal lives as well, we've got more to talk about.
Tom Fletcher
It was never predicted that I would be a songwriter - with this bohemian lifestyle.
Christine Lavin
It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. I was known as a singer songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.
Jimmy Cliff
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
Charles Kingsley
I certainly never thought I would be a performer or a recording artist. I think of myself as more of a songwriter than a pianist. I'm really more of a composer who plays the piano.
Jim Brickman
If I had the guts, I would be a singer-songwriter. My brain is pretty much non-stop with ideas. There is never a dull moment running through my head.
Monica Palacios
We have broader goals, like to become better musicians or a better band or better songwriters or to put on a better live show.
Chris Culos
Denial is a more commercial-type sound, more mainstream rock. Turnbull AC's is more alternative, singer-songwriter pointed. A little more roots rock. But there's definitely a hint of mainstream in our sound.
Dan Mecher
I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time when I was growing up.
Louie Andrus
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
Nanci Griffith
I didn't have a manager, I didn't have a band, I was just a songwriter. But I needed to get my foot in the door, so I took the dollar.
Bryan Adams
This year's nominations truly reflect a dynamic and vibrant community of music makers that includes artists, producers, engineers, songwriters and everyone involved in the creative process.
Neil Portnow
We wanted to put out a record that was way better than anything we put out in the past. So we (brought in outside songwriters). In the past we would have never toyed with that idea.
Chris Culos
He's so gifted. Besides singing, Patrick is a wonderful pianist and songwriter. He's just really good.
Chris Brandon
One of the things that we have going for us is that 'I'm kind of an old-fashioned singer-songwriter in a really hard rock band.' There haven't been too many combinations of that that really worked. We make good albums with good singles that appeal to a mass audience.
Art Alexakis
I love singer-songwriters types. Morrissey is a great singer. I look up to him.
Mike Evans
I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty, the hope being that they care about what they're writing about.
Aimee Mann
As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.
Leann Rimes
I think I'm part of the last generation of songwriters that are really influenced by where they grew up because things these days are becoming more and more homogenized, ... My family comes from an area with lots of rich music ... hill music that was surrounded by storytelling, so it seemed natural to me.
Greg Brown
I consider myself a songwriter first. Some songs come quick. It's just a matter of getting in here and explaining to these guys what I'm hearing . . .
Ben Foster
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.
Miranda Lambert
Johnny felt his greatest gift as a songwriter was the ability to catch the mood of a tune.
Johnny Mercer
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
Frank Black
Mark's a great singer and great performer and songwriter. He took over the vocals and harmony singing with me.
Chuck Mead
I'm talking to you right now, looking out at the ocean, it's a sunny day, waves are peeling off, my surfboard is in the back of my car... damn, I love it. I'm a songwriter. Pop singer. What a great job.
Chris Isaak
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
This was just a project with no real expectations, mostly a way of helping Bob out. He always wanted to be a songwriter.
Wayne Boggs
We had him here at the centre before, with other songwriters for A Country Evening .
Patricia Sullivan
An amazing vocalist and a ridiculous songwriter.
Luis Fonsi
A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them are advertisers, some of them are editorial, some of them are reportage, some of them are sport. So, as a songwriter you can use any of those.
Billy Bragg
I have been very fortunate from the get-go because I am a songwriter and was writing songs and was fortunate enough that I was getting pitched top-shelf songs because the songwriters were my friends.
Craig Morgan
I think we've always prided ourselves and perceived ourselves as songwriters, so it wasn't an album that we felt we had to do, ... But we knew that some day we'll do an album like that, and it will be fun. That's what it was really about. It was just the right time to do it.
John Oates
I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.
Nick Hornby
They're an extremely talented band, great songwriters. They have ... an immense touring base here. And they've made decent inroads into America. They're with Sire Records right now, and they're dishing up in the 'Billboard' charts.
Allan Reid
Being the songwriter that I am, the easiest way to translate what you're doing for people is to give them hooks, something to latch on to, something they can sing themselves.
Fred Leblanc
It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of the most relevant and talented singer-songwriters of our generation. We're all enormous fans of his music. He's a big hero here.
Norman Lear
I just want to be known as a good songwriter who wrote songs that were enduring. I hope my music gives people a glimpse of how empathetic we were and how desirous we were of a better society.
Natalie Merchant
It's just a horror. He was a great musician and a great songwriter.
Mark Roebuck
I think it's more about an independent songwriter scene. You form a family that finds each other when on the road. For me it's a round idea that most of us have a great part of our career in control. No one is signed to anything big.
Erin Mckeown
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