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“Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.”

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“I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.”

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“I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“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.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.”

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Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“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.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.”

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Author:Diana Ross

“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.”

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Author:Nate Ruess

“Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.”

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Author:Shakira

“I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.”

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Author:Ed Sheeran

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

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Author:Robert Smith

“As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.”

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Author:Bjork

“I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.”

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Author:Bjork

“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.”

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Author:Rick Springfield

“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.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“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.”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“I'm not a natural songwriter.”

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Author:Rod Stewart

“I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.”

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Author:George Strait

“I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.”

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Author:George Strait

“I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.”

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Author:James Taylor

“I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.”

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Author:Mick Taylor

“Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.”

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Author:James Blunt

“I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.”

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Author:Paul Westerberg

“I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.”

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Author:Lucinda Williams

“Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.”

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Author:Amy Winehouse

“As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.”

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Author:Bono

“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.”

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Author:will.i.am

“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”

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Author:Angus Young

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.”

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Author:Greg Graffin

“I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.”

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Author:Dale Evans

“Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.”

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Author:Luke Bryan

“I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.”

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Author:Luke Bryan

“When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.”

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Author:Luke Bryan

“The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.”

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Author:Tracy Chapman

“Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.”

“First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

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