300 Quotes on Songs

• Music isn't just something that comforts or distracts. It goes much deeper -- appreciating that sounds make landscapes anywhere in the heart.

  Author: The British Songstress - Adele Adkins

• Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

  Author: John Zorn

• I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

  Author: Neil Young

• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  Author: James Young

• We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  Author: Chely Wright

• Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.

  Author: John Wozniak

• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Author: Tom Wopat

• There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

  Author: Roy Wood

• People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

  Author: Bobby Womack

• I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

  Author: Kip Winger

• I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

  Author: Wesley Willis

• Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

  Author: Theodore White

• I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

  Author: Bryan White

• So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

  Author: Gene Ween

• I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

  Author: Gene Ween

• We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

  Author: Gene Ween

• The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

  Author: Jimmy Webb

• Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

  Author: William Watson

• Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

  Author: Roger Waters

• I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

  Author: Roger Waters

• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

  Author: Alan Vega

• I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

  Author: Jim Varney

• I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

  Author: Luther Vandross

• I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

  Author: Frankie Valli

• I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

  Author: Holly Valance

• So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically.

  Author: Midge Ure

• It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

  Author: Keith Urban

• It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

  Author: Keith Urban

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  Author: Lars Ulrich

• I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

  Author: Conway Twitty

• It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

  Author: Shania Twain

• Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

  Author: Tina Turner

• It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

  Author: Robin Trower

• Downloading songs is not good.

  Author: Obie Trice

• The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

  Author: Merle Travis

• I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

  Author: Peter Townsend

• And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

  Author: Peter Tosh

• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Author: Mel Torme

• There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

  Author: Mel Torme

• Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

  Author: Peter Tork

• I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

  Author: Johnny Thunders

• Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

  Author: George Thorogood

• I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

  Author: George Thorogood

• There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

  Author: George Thorogood

• This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

  Author: George Thorogood

• I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• It's amazing what some people read into songs.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

  Author: John Tesh

• After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

  Author: John Tesh

• If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

  Author: Bryn Terfel

• At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

  Author: Benmont Tench

• I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

  Author: Paul Taylor

• By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.

  Author: Paul Taylor

• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

  Author: James Taylor

• I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

  Author: James Taylor

• Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

  Author: Toru Takemitsu

• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

  Author: Joss Stone

• My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

  Author: Sting

• That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

  Author: Sting

• I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

  Author: Rachel Stevens

• The words of the songs speak for themselves.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

  Author: Peter Steele

• Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

  Author: Peter Steele

• Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

  Author: Peter Steele

• There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

  Author: Layne Staley

• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  Author: Jo Stafford

• In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

  Author: Rick Springfield

• I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

  Author: Rick Springfield

• I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

  Author: Jeremy Spencer

• I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

  Author: Bubba Sparxxx

• After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

  Author: Dick Smothers

• I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

  Author: Robert Smith

• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

  Author: Robert Smith

• If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

  Author: Robert Smith

• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

  Author: Robert Smith

• I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

  Author: Patti Smith

• There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

  Author: Michael Smith

• I learn my songs by ear.

  Author: Kate Smith

• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  Author: Kate Smith

• It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

  Author: Chad Smith

• It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

  Author: Ricky Skaggs

• Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

  Author: Paul Simon

• When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

  Author: Paul Simon

• I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

  Author: Paul Simon

• Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

  Author: Carly Simon

• I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

  Author: Carly Simon

• I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

  Author: Carly Simon

• I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

  Author: Carly Simon

• I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

  Author: Bobby Sherman

• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

  Author: Jules Shear

• I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

  Author: Jules Shear

• Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

  Author: Jules Shear

• I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

  Author: Jules Shear

• When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

  Author: Shakira

• Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

  Author: Shakira

• Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

  Author: Shakira

• I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

  Author: Bob Seger

• Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

  Author: Jon Secada

• With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

  Author: Jon Secada

• All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

  Author: Bon Scott

• No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

  Author: Bon Scott

• No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

  Author: Fred Schneider

• Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

  Author: Carlos Santana

• And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

  Author: Katey Sagal

• I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

  Author: Graham Russell

• My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

  Author: Paulina Rubio

• I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

  Author: Diana Ross

• We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

  Author: Lil' Romeo

• I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.

  Author: Christy Romano

• I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

  Author: Kid Rock

• I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

  Author: Marty Robbins

• But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

  Author: Lee Ritenour

• I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

  Author: Jonathan Richman

• I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

  Author: Lionel Richie

• I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

  Author: Little Richard

• We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

  Author: Adam Rich

• I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

  Author: Busta Rhymes

• Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

  Author: Jeremy Renner

• Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.

  Author: Michael Reed

• Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

  Author: Noel Redding

• Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

  Author: Noel Redding

• And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

  Author: Johnny Ramone

• My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

  Author: Johnny Ramone

• I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

  Author: Dee Ramone

• The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

  Author: Dee Ramone

• We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

  Author: Mick Ralphs

• That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

  Author: Mick Ralphs

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  Author: Karl Rahner

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

  Author: Robert Quine

• I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

  Author: Alan Price

• It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

  Author: Priscilla Presley

• I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

  Author: Lisa Presley

• I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

  Author: Lisa Presley

• I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

  Author: Liz Phair

• It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

  Author: Liz Phair

• I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

  Author: Madeleine Peyroux

• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Author: Madeleine Peyroux

• Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  Author: Richard Perle

• I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

  Author: Scott Patterson

• I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

  Author: Alan Parsons

• I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

  Author: Elaine Paige

• I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

  Author: Buck Owens

• I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.

  Author: Buck Owens

• When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

  Author: John Otto

• As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  Author: Yoko Ono

• Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

  Author: Jerry Only

• Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

  Author: Jerry Only

• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

  Author: Jerry Only

• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  Author: Ed O'Brien

• There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

  Author: Ed O'Brien

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  Author: Ed O'Brien

• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  Author: John Oates

• So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

  Author: Larry Norman

• What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.

  Author: Peter Noone

• There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

  Author: Peter Noone

• 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Author: Juice Newton

• It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

  Author: Jason Newsted

• I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  Author: Randy Newman

• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

  Author: Ricky Nelson

• I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

  Author: Vince Neil

• When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

  Author: Holly Near

• To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

  Author: Holly Near

• Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

  Author: Holly Near

• I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

  Author: Graham Nash

• I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

  Author: Graham Nash

• All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

  Author: Graham Nash

• Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

  Author: Mike Myers

• The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

  Author: Alfred Musset

• Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

  Author: Gerry Mulligan

• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  Author: John Muir

• I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

  Author: Jason Mraz

• It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

  Author: Jason Mraz

• The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

  Author: Jason Mraz

• My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  Author: Van Morrison

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