Sentence examples for songwriters from inspiring English sources
Gomez and Badly Drawn Boy are past winners, and share a vaguely similar approach to songwriting, but in the past solo folk/indie songwriters haven't triumphed at the Mercuries.
As we are often reminded, other Brill Building songwriters of the period "looked like dentists".
Does all your music arise from conversations? No. On the second [eponymous] Razorlight album I wrote with Andy [ Burrows former drummer] and we wanted to prove ourselves as pop songwriters, like the Beatles – and I'm not saying we're as good as the Beatles; I just need to put that UK press disclaimer in there – but in the sense of: "Let's see what we can do as pop writers".
The reader might take issue with the editors' claim that the railway is "as close as earthly things get to perfection" – as indeed do many of the poets and songwriters on board – but there are plenty of nostalgic pleasures to be had here.
A lot of the time, I think, there's almost a notion with some songwriters that if it didn't come to you in 30 seconds on the back of a cigarette packet, then it's not a good idea – which I disagree with.
Prolific songwriters, George and Louis wrote more than 250 songs of their own while they were on the road with Preston, and then quit in 1973 to form their own group, the Brothers Johnson.
Dear God, do the decadent whims of our royal family – and, indeed, certain singer-songwriters' thirst for lucrative "private gigs" – know no bounds?
His chart-topping soundtrack to the film Ill Manors leads the nominations for the 2012 Mercury prize, standing out among the indie bands and singer-songwriters dominating this year's shortlist.
It's the fact that on radio playlists dominated by sanitised singer-songwriters and slick pop ballads, Slaves turn up with primal songs that throw together punk existentialism, sketches of suburban life and absurd narratives about manta rays and sasquatches in noisy three-minute bursts.
'It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.' Flynn is from a semi-posh, post-colonial family.
Producers are bewitched by the rock-bottom cost of deploying a single man (usually) with a mic, just as in the music industry singer-songwriters are said to be outdoing more expensive bands.
