Words matter. These are the best Singer-Songwriter Quotes from famous people such as Madeline Brewer, Bonnie Raitt, Tift Merritt, Lizz Wright, John Mellencamp, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter, so I followed in his footsteps.
I’m sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It’s just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that’s partly my job this time around.
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there’s a lot of folk and Americana there because that’s just my life.
It’s my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the ’30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
I’ve made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It’s melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
As a singer-songwriter I definitely think I push the mould a lot.
Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people’s perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition – and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
I’ve always thought I crossed this really weird gap between the pop world and some slightly more left-field singer-songwriter music, but everyone’s always comparing me with Ed Sheeran. It’s frustrating.
My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.
I’m a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
You don’t just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
A young female essayist saying they’re influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they’re influenced by Joni Mitchell.
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
I think that I’m a powerful female, a young singer-songwriter with an energy that’s not really been done before. I think that’s what people need to know about, you know.
I’m still trying to make it. I’m still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.
If somebody says ‘singer-songwriter’ to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
I didn’t get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I’m a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
On ‘Kaputt,’ singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band’s sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.
Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early ’70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it’s fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?
I’m a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It’s really fun, man!
And that’s the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don’t, and you just have to deal with.
I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that’s why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.
My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.
There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.
I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That’s why some people really dig the band, and some don’t.
People want things that address their everyday reality, and that goes for stuff that isn’t political – with singer-songwriter music, people want things that touch them.
It’s bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.
When I’m outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It’s peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he’s doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.
I don’t like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don’t picture myself that way, and it’s not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It’s really just an aesthetic thing.
I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That’s who I am.
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the ’60s who was pretty huge. I think I’m drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too – she’s quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.
