Quotes About Lyrics

I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.

I'm a songwriter.

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

I'm a songwriter, actually. And when I say I'm a songwriter, I'm saying I can write songs for more than just myself.

You probably shouldn't date a songwriter if you don't want to end up on the record.

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.

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.

The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

Songwriters tell the truth.

Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.

I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.

I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn't understand what my lyrics were about. I saw that as a compliment. That's exactly what English songwriters should be doing!

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

Obviously we're pop songwriters.

I just see us as songwriters.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.