Quotes About Songwriter

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

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

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

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

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

Being in a boy ban,d you're not allowed to be good at anything. You're not allowed to be talented. You're not really allowed to be a songwriter. You're not allowed to be that good a singer.

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.

As a songwriter, I've got a lot of facets, so to speak. When you come to a live show, you get a better sense of that, because you'll see me performing a piano ballad and some acoustic songs and some not acoustic songs, all in the same set.

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 have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

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.

It's not a passion of mine to follow politics. When I deal with political issues in my songs, I just say stuff that's current, only as a songwriter.

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

I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need to have material to tour behind. It took a lot of pressure off me.

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

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

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am in my composing mode, I go into my studio and turn that part of my brain on like a faucet. And when I finish, I turn it off. But with songwriting, that process is much more elusive.

I'm glad that people realize that I am a songwriter. I just want them to take away the fact that I'm honest, and that I'm putting in work on the sonic side.