#songwriter

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion. ↗

— James Blunt

#away #being #boarding #boarding school #could

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#acoustic guitar #bass #dorsey #fabulous #guitar

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 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

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#dream #recorded #run #song #songwriter

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

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. ↗

— John Legend

#artists #i #i always #me #myself

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#beatles #beatles songs #chords #great #i

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#become #change #growing-up #independent #into-the-wild