Quotes About Music

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

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

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

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

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

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.

'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

I'm a commercial-minded songwriter. I'm here to make a living and be on the radio.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

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.

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.

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.