Top 40 Good Songwriter Quotes
#1. Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
Danny Brown
#2. I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
Alex Chilton
#3. I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.
Terry Teachout
#4. I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
Joe Cocker
#5. Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
Nanci Griffith
#6. I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Benmont Tench
#7. I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.
Tom Cochrane
#8. It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
Randy Houser
#9. I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.
Brett Dennen
#10. You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
Dierks Bentley
#11. But the hardest is watching your son watching his friend die.
Jesse Andrews
#12. After all," as he wrote years later, "work is still the best way of escaping from life!
Mason Currey
#13. I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B.B. King
#14. I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
Benny Blanco
#15. I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.
Jimmy Cliff
#16. Enough. I don't have time for this; self-pity's a luxury that I can't afford.
Like bread. Or pride.
Enough, Errin. There's work to do. Get up.
Melinda Salisbury
#17. When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.
Meghan Trainor
#18. I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.
Mose Allison
#19. I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.
Andrew Bird
#20. You're really good with sweet-talk."
"I'm a songwriter, darlin'. Kinda comes with the territory.
J.T. Geissinger
#21. I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.
Billy Corgan
#22. I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.
Elle Varner
#23. My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.
Greg Brown
#24. You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.
Justin Townes Earle
#25. I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.
Gin Wigmore
#26. Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
Bette Greene
#27. As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.
LeAnn Rimes
#28. Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Howard Rheingold
#29. I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
Gwen Stefani
#30. I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.
John Prine
#32. Everything was neat and organized, and I wondered if I surrounded myself with people who had that quality because I lacked it myself.
Liliana Hart
#33. I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.
Jeff Tweedy
#34. Hey
jazz hands!" Kenji barks. "Get your ass back over here." He makes it a point to look as irritated as possible. "Back to work. And this time, focus. You're not an ape. Don't just throw your shit everywhere.
Tahereh Mafi
#35. If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.
Margaret Cho
#36. With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
Janet Weiss
#37. Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.
Vandana Shiva
#38. Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature.
Julian Barnes
#39. 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.
Lyle Lovett
#40. I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
Stone Gossard
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