#songwriter

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#certainly #grab #guitar #i #i think

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#film-makers #i #i am #influenced #more

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. ↗

— Neil Innes

#many #ones #only #really #songwriters

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#lot #point #songwriters #steal #terms

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i love #love #songs #songwriter #writing

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#another #argument #bad #beginning #cat

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. ↗

— Steve Earle

#bob #boots #coffee #coffee table #cowboy

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#berlin #blues #greatest #him #his

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#albums #band #grownups #i #kid

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#band #clear #clear idea #every #how