#songwriter

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

— Paula Cole

#childhood #childhood memories #i #into #memories

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

— Mel Tillis

#son #songwriter

We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#although #american #billy #billy joel #composers

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#collaborators #great #history #lot #lyricist

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

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#business #business person #constant #down #goals

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

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award. ↗

— Richard Marx

#because #better #celebrate #i #luther