Words matter. These are the best Shawn Colvin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can’t.
Change doesn’t happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
I get a lot of joy out of covering other people’s songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.
When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that’s painful.
I’ve had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic’s point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I’m fairly healthy, it’s hard to stay dismal for very long.
I would say my whole first record, ‘Steady On,’ had a lot to do with healing.
When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.
My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.
I’d like to think I’ve overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
I can perform easily; I don’t mind getting up in front of people at all. I’ve always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn’t a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that’s mine.
When I’m writing with John Leventhal, the music that he’s written mostly comes first. And I’ll write the lyrics and the melody.
I don’t support Trump. We’ll put that right out there.
I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.
It was a beauty contest in the ’80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.
