Songwriting Community Quotes

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

My third hire when I came to Spotify was Tiffany Kumar, who came on as our global head of songwriter relations. The whole idea was to put our heads together and figure out how to build and contribute within the songwriting community.

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.

Have I felt misunderstood by Music Row at times? Of course.

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But you've really got to go through songwriter boot camp to find your people.

I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.