Quotes About Artistry

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as 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.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter.

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

I think the biggest thing, for me, was just to be recognized as a songwriter.

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

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.

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

I'd like to eventually be known as someone who emerged as 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 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.

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 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.

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