Quotes About Music

I'm a singer, songwriter from Mexico.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

At the end of the day, I'm a songwriter.

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.

I come from a very musical family, and a songwriter, a musician, is a byproduct of the influences of his life, whether cultural, artistically, or emotionally.

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

I loved all kinds of Bluegrass music. Sonya Isaacs was a big influence; she's a Bluegrass Gospel singer, but she's also done a lot in the Country world just from backup and songwriter and as an artist. Also, the Dixie Chicks were a big influence. Just all of those 90s and early 2000s Country voices.

I think what makes me great as a songwriter is there's still an artist behind it.

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

I don't know if people know this about me, but I'm into Billy Joel. I'm a huge fan of his and always have been. He's just a quintessential songwriter of our time. Talk about a storied career - so many classic songs and great albums.

One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.

On Christmas Day 2016, the greatest singer songwriter of his generation, an icon of his era, George Michael, was lost. A supernova in the shining stars had been extinguished and it felt like the sky had fallen in.

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing songs, they keep coming.

I never dreamed of being a singer or songwriter. It just happened.

I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

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.

He is irreplaceable. Even in death I have no doubt that Johnny Cash will continue to live on as an inspiration to musicians and songwriters and all of America.