#songwriter

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

#being #catch #else #good #hand

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. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#corner #dancer #either #guitar #guitar player

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#breakup #easy #far #i #i can

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#artist #growing-up #life #life-and-living #reality

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#better #done #everything #feel #grow

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. ↗

— Jewel

#day #fun #had #homeless #i

We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. ↗

— Graham Nash

#because #cut #deal #enough #expensive

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters. ↗

— Helen Slater

#acoustic #bit #could #courage #guess

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#black music #interest #music #only #our

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#son #songwriter