Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

The first song I ever had recorded by another artist was a song called 'Surefire Feeling' by Jake Owen.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.