Quotes on Songs

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Author: Marc Almond

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

Author: Marc Almond

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

Author: Tori Amos

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

Author: Paul Anka

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Author: Keren Ann

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

Author: Tom Araya

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

Author: Eddy Arnold

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

Author: Randy Bachman

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

Author: Derek Bailey

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

Author: Travis Barker

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

Author: Travis Barker

I like songs that are simple.

Author: Syd Barrett

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

Author: Adrian Belew

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Author: Daisy Berkowitz

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

Author: Daisy Berkowitz

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

Author: Nuno Bettencourt

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Author: Michael Bolton

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

Author: David Bowie

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Author: David Bowie

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

Author: David Bowie

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

Author: Edie Brickell

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

Author: Geezer Butler

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

Author: Deana Carter

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

Author: Rosanne Cash

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

Author: Tracy Chapman

I'm a lover of songs.

Author: Vince Clarke

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

Author: Joe Cocker

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

Author: David Coe

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Author: Judy Collins

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

Author: Rita Coolidge

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

Author: Elvis Costello

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

Author: David Coverdale

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

Author: Wayne Coyne

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Author: Robert Cray

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

Author: Jon Crosby

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Author: Sheryl Crow

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

Author: Dick Dale

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

Author: Dick Dale

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

Author: Evan Dando

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Author: Ray Davies

I don't have many easy songs.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

Author: John Deacon

All my songs are where I am.

Author: Adam Duritz

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Author: Sheena Easton

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

Author: John Entwistle

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Author: Marianne Faithfull

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

Author: John Fogerty

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Author: David Friedman

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

Author: John Frusciante

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

Author: Barry Gibb

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

Author: Don Gibson

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

Author: Mike Gordon

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

Author: Mike Gordon

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

Author: Martin Gore

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Author: Peter Grant

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

Author: Arlo Guthrie

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

Author: Ben Harper

I really, really like writing songs.

Author: Debbie Harry

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

Author: Juliana Hatfield

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

Author: Juliana Hatfield

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Author: Justin Hayward

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

Author: Kristin Hersh

There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.

Author: Peter Hook

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Author: Shannon Hoon

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Author: Michael Hutchence

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

Author: Scott Ian

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

Author: James Iha

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

Author: Natalie Imbruglia

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Author: Neil Innes

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

Author: LaToya Jackson

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

Author: Etta James

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

Author: Adam Jones

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

Author: Val Kilmer

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Author: Ben King

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Author: Mark Knopfler

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

Author: Talib Kweli

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

Author: Sheryl Lee

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

Author: Sean Lennon

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

Author: Sean Lennon

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Author: Phil Lesh

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Author: Huey Lewis

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Author: Bob Livingston

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Author: Lindsay Lohan

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Author: Chris Lowe

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

Author: Nick Lowe

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

Author: Mike Lowry

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

Author: Mike Lowry

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Author: Patrick MacGill

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Author: Aimee Mann

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Author: Barry Mann

We became the songs we wrote.

Author: Barry Mann

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

Author: Barry Mann

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

Author: Barry Mann

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

Author: Teena Marie

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Author: Richard Marx

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

Author: John Mayall

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Author: John Mayall

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

Author: Paul McCartney

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Author: Reba McEntire

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

Author: Bobby McFerrin

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

Author: Barry McGuire

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

Author: Michael McKean

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Author: Marian McPartland

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Author: Christine McVie

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

Author: John Mellencamp

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

Author: Ronnie Montrose

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Author: James Mooney

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

Author: Rick Moranis

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

Author: Alanis Morissette

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

Author: Alanis Morissette

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Author: Alanis Morissette

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

Author: Van Morrison

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

Author: Gerry Mulligan

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

Author: Alfred Musset

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 can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

Author: Joanna Newsom

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

Author: Joanna Newsom

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

Author: Joanna Newsom

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

Author: Yoko Ono

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 quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

Author: Alan Price

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

Author: Robert Quine

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

Author: Noel Redding

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

Author: Michael Reed

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

Author: Adam Rich

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

Author: Johnny Rivers

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

Author: Smokey Robinson

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

Author: Kid Rock

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

Author: Carlos Santana

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

Author: Brian Setzer

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

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

Author: Duncan Sheik

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

Author: Billy Sherwood

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

Author: Billy Sherwood

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

Author: Carly Simon

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

Author: Carly Simon

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

Author: Paul Simon

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

Author: Elliott Smith

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

Author: Kate Smith

I learn my songs by ear.

Author: Kate Smith

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Author: Patti Smith

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

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

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 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

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

Author: Peter Steele