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This collection holds 114 songwriter quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Taylor Swift, The-Dream and Kenny Chesney.

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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.

You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.

Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

My sister's job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.

Richie Kotzen is such an unbelievable talent as a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.

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

I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.

As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.

I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I'm trying to break away from doing covers or from being considered only as a YouTube star. I'm a singer, songwriter, sound engineer, and producer.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.

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.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

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.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day - denim, jeans, long hair, early 20s.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

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