#songwriter

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#because #building #company #course #hung

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. ↗

— Kid Rock

#i #know #player #singer #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. ↗

— Billy Joel

#competent #consider #extraordinary #i #i do

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love. ↗

— Elton John

#compete #i #i can #just #just be

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#course #focus #huge #i #mean

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special. ↗

— George Strait

#becomes #being #depend #find #fits

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

— James Taylor

#could #i #out #pretending #songwriter

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life #music #musician #singer #songwriter

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#been #compliment #considered #contributing #each