Quotes About Music

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

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

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

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.

I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters.

I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.

There are a few songwriters in bands I really relate to that write a certain type of joy, because a lot of artists don't really write joy. It's a thing only a few people do.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.

I love Gino Vannelli! I love every one of his albums. He's one of my favourite songwriters - straight up.

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn't mean anything.

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.

People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.