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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.”

Long Home Faces Names Wish Dear Folks Staring Songwriting Songwriters Undertakings

Author:Stephen Foster

“I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse for the way the "songwriter" is robbed by everyone from the record company to the broadcaster, by the pure bottom line, greed. If it continues, sadly, in time, the music will suffer. It takes many many years to learn how to write a song properly. Songwriters will be forced to hit the road in order to make a decent living and, in my opinion, these two careers are related but not compatible.”

“I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.”

Today Hate Careers Starting Songwriting Songwriters Starting Over

Author:Otis Blackwell

“Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.”

Demon Songwriting Possessed Songwriters Writing Songs

Author:John Lennon

“If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.”

Ifs Want Should Years Persons Has Beens Important Form Stuff Study Important Things Structure Folks Songwriting Exposed Songwriters Folk Music

Book:Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

“They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.”

Way Beautiful Results Unique Singers Contemporary Traditional Songwriters Timeless Instrumentalists Timeless Music

Author:Cindy Cashdollar

“I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.”

Sound Singers Traditional Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Sara Bareilles

“My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.”

Play Brother Guitar Excellent My Brother Songwriters

Author:Jeremy London

“Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.”

Ifs Knows Writing Ideas Lucky Pens Songwriters Pencils Lucky You

Author:Pete Seeger

“I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.”

Thinking Should Art Worry Rocks Art Is Concerned Rock N Roll Songwriters Arthur

Author:Keith Richards

“I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.”

Pushing Songwriters

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.”

People Wanted Song Hearing Singers Curious Enjoyed Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Lyle Lovett

“The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.”

Country Names Rocks Female Pops Rock N Roll Songwriters Music Business Like Her

Author:Stevie Nicks

“If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.”

Ifs Thinking Songwriters Favorite Song

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.”

Beautiful Praise Singers Our Time Lasting Bob Songwriters Dylan Singer Songwriters Favorite Singer

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.”

People Songwriting Songwriters Writing Songs

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.”

People Stills Rooms Songwriters

Author:Bobby Bare

“For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.”

School Listening Tunes Songwriting Songwriters

Author:Tom Waits

“I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.”

Wanted Known Songwriters Songbirds

Author:Carly Rae Jepsen

“I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.”

Film Poet Painter Makers Songwriters

Author:PJ Harvey

“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.”

Knows Life Writing Hands Stuff Live Life Dirty Songwriters Cant Sleeves

Author:Dierks Bentley

“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.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Stills Done Play Whole Wanted Okay Songwriting Texas Songwriters Miranda

Author:Frank Liddell

“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.”

Knows Writing Years I Can Ideas Seems Might Song Worry Fire Five Periods Ten Seasons Songwriting Songwriters

Author:Rodney Clawson

“The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.”

People Way Years Littles Song Realizing Music Singing Faculty Toms Songwriters Observers Observing Peeping Ammo

Book:Life

Source: Life

“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.'”

Important Sometimes Music Breaths Important Things Breathe Songwriters

Author:Tori Amos

“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.”

Should Ideas Song Vision Clear Band Songwriters

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“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.”

Want Long Matter Lasts Songwriters

Author:Miley Cyrus

“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.”

Knows Loss Grace Fine Lessons Simplicity Singers Songwriters Resignation Singer Songwriters Acknowledgement

Author:Rodney Crowell

“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”

Doe Stills Different Done Bigs Lasts Millions Records College Band University Labels Songwriters

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.”

Musician Songwriters Oasis Talented Musicians

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.”

Feels Amount Enormous Songwriters

Author:Roger Daltrey

“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”

Wells Voice Watches Jazz Singers Checks Fantastic Parks Songwriters Great Voice Lizzy

Author:Jamie Cullum

“After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.”

Feels Whole Young Realizing Player Singers Piano Passages Songwriters Singer Songwriters Passage Of Time

Author:Tori Amos

“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.”

“My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.”

Years Brother Development Musician Fantastic My Brother Songwriters Cheerleader

Author:Tori Amos

“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.”

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

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

Writing Songwriters

Author:Ben Gibbard

“I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.”

Knows Should Song Next Stuff Sound Folks Songwriters Really Great Dictionary Folk Songs

Author:John Prine

“And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.”

People I Can Song Songwriters

Author:Smokey Robinson

“Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.”

Alive Telling The Truth Songwriters Andrew

Author:Dave Carter

“Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.”

Voice Class Generations Majors Singers Contemporary Contribution Categories Songwriters Outstanding Singer Songwriters Contemporary Music

Author:David Amram

“I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.”

Heart Soul Strong Voice Pleasure Band Musician Hearing Novelists Songwriters Gifted Talented Musicians

Author:Daryl Stuermer

“Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.”

Knows Way Feels Country Life Is Song Born Imagination Lines Fiction Stupid Fine Singers Excellent Songwriters Paranoia Singer Songwriters Paranoid Where You Come

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.”

Ifs Knows Looks Young Struggle Quitting Songwriters

Author:Tom T. Hall

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

Kind Position Fishing Songwriters Fisherman

Author:Jimmy Webb

“I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.”

Appreciate Songwriters Restraint

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”

Writing Song Wise I've Learned Songwriting Songwriters Writing Songs Woody Cezanne

Author:Bob Dylan

“I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.”

Thinking Periods Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Andrew Gold

“Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.”

Hardest Performing Songwriting Songwriters

Author:Neil Diamond

“I am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As a songwriter, publisher and friend...there is no better home than Kobalt!”

Home Care Felt Levels Taken Members Songwriters Publishers

Author:Desmond Child

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