Top 100 Quotes About My Songs
#1. Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
James Bay
#2. The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.
Andrew Bird
#3. I've noticed more people coming to shows and I've had a feeling that they were from a part of the culture I haven't been able to get to before, younger people. I think on iTunes they've been experimenting with my songs and the digital radio world has been very kind to me.
Patty Griffin
#4. In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
Adele
#5. People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.
Joni Mitchell
#6. I like it when girls are screaming for me. It makes me feel really player-like. I enjoy being out there, delivering my songs, and putting a face to the music.
Kirko Bangz
#7. It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.
Ryan Adams
#8. In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that.
Jason Mraz
#9. I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.
Austin Carlile
#10. The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.
Jackie Gleason
#11. I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.
Will Oldham
#12. Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith
#13. When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
Chester Bennington
#14. People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.
Courtney Barnett
#15. Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
Michael Bolton
#16. I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.
Zooey Deschanel
#17. It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
Adele
#18. As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
David Friedman
#19. 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.
Shakira
#20. I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.
Mike Willis
#21. It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
Ray Lamontagne
#22. 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.
Thom Yorke
#23. I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
Glenn Hughes
#24. If you listen to most of my songs, the lyrics are pretty kind of dark, but I like to put it behind happy music because then it evens it out ... I'm really happy, actually. Obviously I have my bad moments, but I always challenge myself to not put negativity out there because there's already enough.
Shamir
#25. I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
Jill Scott
#26. My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
Bob Dylan
#27. A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.
Ryan Adams
#28. I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley
#29. I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
Taylor Swift
#30. Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
Gareth Gates
#31. I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
David Almond
#32. My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
Kailash Kher
#33. I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.
Jens Lekman
#34. After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.
Tupac Shakur
#35. I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
David Friedman
#36. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.
Jim Carroll
#37. No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
Jello Biafra
#38. I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.
Carly Craig
#40. People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.
Madonna Ciccone
#41. I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
Shania Twain
#42. If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
Ruth Brown
#43. My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
Jakob Dylan
#44. My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap
#45. Most of my songs aren't about me. They're about stuff I've seen.
Dionne Bromfield
#46. I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.
Leona Lewis
#47. I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
Jamie Lawson
#48. I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.
Prince Royce
#49. Not all of my songs are electronic, they're not house or dancey.
Chaz Bundick
#50. Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f ... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.
Eminem
#51. Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.
Alanis Morissette
#52. Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#53. The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#54. I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
Jenny Lewis
#56. I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.
Mike Stud
#57. I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.
Taylor Swift
#58. My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.
Rayvon Owen
#59. I write my songs because I've lived them.
Katy Perry
#60. But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
Sara Teasdale
#61. A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.
Lenny Kravitz
#62. The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.
Taylor Swift
#63. There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling.
Josh Garrels
#64. I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.
Deana Carter
#65. Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.
Thalia Zedek
#66. I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
John Lennon
#67. I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.
Art Alexakis
#68. I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
Frank Ocean
#69. What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?
For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,
I am an answer, they are only a call
Sara Teasdale
#70. My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#71. All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
Laura Marling
#72. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Paul Anka
#73. I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
John McCormack
#74. I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
Barbra Streisand
#75. I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.
Stephen Foster
#76. I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
Jackson Browne
#77. My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.
Juliana Hatfield
#78. I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.
Rod McKuen
#79. I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.
Lena Horne
#80. But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
Harvey Fierstein
#81. I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.
Avril Lavigne
#82. My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
Birdy
#83. I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.
Vanessa Hudgens
#84. I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
Kaki King
#85. Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple
#86. I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Art Alexakis
#87. Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.
Mark Hall
#88. With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.
Shaun Fleming
#89. My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
Dolly Parton
#91. Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love
Selena
#92. In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
Ziggy Marley
#93. My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.
Eric Bachmann
#94. There [are] times when I put out an album, and I don't hear my songs really on the radio a lot, and it's like, Dang, I ain't inside that world. But I'm still moving some people or touching some people.
Common
#96. I won't sell my songs for no TV Ad
Adam Yauch
#97. I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.
William Fitzsimmons
#98. I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
Ellie Goulding
#99. In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.
Weyes Blood
#100. I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.
Cher Lloyd
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