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“With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.”

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Author:David Fricke

“I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.”

Rocks Suits Rock N Roll Songwriters Finest

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“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.”

Persons Body Voice Songwriters

Author:Beth Ditto

“Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.”

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Author:Tom Chapin

“I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.”

Heart Soul Hard Songwriters Listening To Music Heart And Soul

Author:Jake Bugg

“Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.”

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Author:Andrew Bird

“I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.”

Continuing Songwriters

Author:Ashthon Jones

“I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.”

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Author:Paul Stanley

“Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour”

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Author:Chuck Leavell

“Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!”

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Author:Marci Shimoff

“Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.”

Important Artist Voice Rocks Development Performers Songwriters Rock And Roll Breakthrough Guitarist Chuck Berries

Author:Cub Koda

“Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.”

Singers Wit Subtle Songwriters Singer Songwriters Sneak Sly Offbeat

Author:Steve Morse

“Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.”

Light Fine Shining Singers Excellent Horizon Songwriters Guitarist There Is Hope

Author:Chris Hillman

“I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.”

Thinking Men Attention Records Deserve Songwriters Coal Dave Americana

Author:Todd Snider

“Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to the fact that she is Australian. This affords her a totally different attitude as an artist than traditional American contributors to this genre. Audrey is one of the most honest original artists I know.”

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

Term Stealing Songwriters Screenwriters

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Stars Songwriters

Author:Tom Cochrane

“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.”

Thinking Persons Political Fabric Songwriters

Author:Steve Earle

“The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time”

Challenges Simple Complexes Supreme Songwriters

Author:Paul Simon

“People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

Thinking Way Kind I Can Happens One Way I've Learned Songwriters

Author:Norah Jones

“All songwriters are links in a chain.”

Chains Links Songwriters

Author:Pete Seeger

“I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.”

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Author:Willie Aames

“He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.”

Thinking Feels Trying Made Feelings Seems Easy Emotion Saws Like You Paint Honestly Made It Songwriters

Author:Eminem

“Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed”

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Author:Jon Foreman

“The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.”

Ifs Shows Song Fall Fit Falling In Love Songwriters

Author:Dorothy Fields

“The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.”

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Author:Chuck D

“Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.”

“I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.”

Bigs Pieces Sky Mines Songwriters Up And Down Jewelry Unstable Trajectory

Author:Kara DioGuardi

“You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.”

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Author:Kara DioGuardi

“Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.”

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Author:Joe Jonas

“A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.”

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Author:Alan Jackson

“I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.”

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Author:Trey Songz

“A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.”

People Thinking Looks Bigs Young Chance Behinds Corporate Songwriters

Author:Ronald Isley

“I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.”

Way Guitar Compliment Songwriters Contributing Guitarist Lowes

Author:Dave Edmunds

“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.”

Needs Different Today Business Driven Singers Producers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Cynthia Weil

“There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.”

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Author:Billy Bragg

“And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.”

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Author:Ashley Judd

“I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.”

Song Songwriters Personal Experiences

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.”

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Author:Avicii

“When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.”

People Writing Song Careers Research Distance Songwriters

Author:Paloma Faith

“I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.”

Writing Doe Hard Song Singers Songwriters Writing Songs

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.”

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Author:Melissa Etheridge

“I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.”

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Author:Louis Tomlinson

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