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“But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.”

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Author:Ben Folds

“The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.”

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Author:Jon Landau

“Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.”

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Author:Faith Hill

“If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a reluctance with all the things that go along with it, you got to choose, and this is one of my big opportunities to get back doing it.”

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Author:Donnie Fritts

“There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.”

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Author:Oleta Adams

“I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.”

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Author:Richard Sherman

“I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?”

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Author:Glen Hansard

“I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.”

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Author:Glen Hansard

“I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.”

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Author:PJ Harvey

“My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.”

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Author:Sufjan Stevens

“When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

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Author:Andrew Garfield

“I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.”

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Author:Damon Albarn

“You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.”

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Author:Billy Ray Cyrus

“Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.”

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Author:George Harrison

“I was never a topical songwriter.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.”

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Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.”

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Author:Amos Lee

“I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.”

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Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.”

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Author:Greg Brown

“If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.”

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Author:Smokey Robinson

“I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.”

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Author:Beth Orton

“I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.”

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Author:Lou Doillon

“As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.”

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Author:Ben Harper

“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.”

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Author:PJ Harvey

“I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.”

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Author:Jimmy Cliff

“I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.”

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Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.”

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Author:Noel Gallagher

“A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.”

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Author:Art Alexakis

“My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.”

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Author:Sly Stone

“It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") 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.”

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Author:Jimmy Cliff

“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”

“I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.”

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...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...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

“When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."”

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Author:Vince Gill

“Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.”

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Author:Sharleen Spiteri

“The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.”

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Author:Lauren Hart

“The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.”

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Author:Mary Travers

“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.”

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Author:Rodney Atkins

“What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?”

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Author:John Hiatt

“Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.”

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Author:Rupert Holmes

“What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.”

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Author:Lucinda Williams

“Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.”

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Author:Jon Foreman

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