Jason Bonham Quotes

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

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

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

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.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

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

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value is Ghost and my writing via Ghost.

I'm trying to break away from doing covers or from being considered only as a YouTube star. I'm a singer, songwriter, sound engineer, and producer.

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.