#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 may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that. ↗

— David Friedman

#david #famous #hear #i #i may not

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically. ↗

— Martin Fry

#astute #basically #best #covered #era

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you... ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#emotion #music #musicians #obsession #relationships

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent. ↗

— Willie Aames

#artists #average #average person #deeply #down

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#brother #i #live #made #melodic

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records. ↗

— Frank Black

#bob #bob dylan #bother #comparing #dylan

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. ↗

— Bjork

#being #explorer #i #i love #like

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#hate #i #songwriter #starting #today