Quotes About Songs

#1. 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.

Glenn Tipton

#2. I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Nick Cave

#3. There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

Leona Lewis

#4. 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.

Lionel Richie

#5. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

George Harrison

#6. I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

Chrissie Hynde

#7. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have not begun to read, you have not learned how to read.

John Macy

#8. Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

Nile Rodgers

#9. But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

#10. Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. My songs are like my kids.

Billy Joel

#12. For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Reba McEntire

#13. The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Jarvis Cocker

#14. I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.

Dawn Angelique

#15. I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.

Sharon Jones

#16. There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where ... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that feeling with a song and it never goes anywhere, that happens all the time too, so you never really know.

Bonnie McKee

#17. I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

Benmont Tench

#18. Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it - mostly the feel.

Matthew Zapruder

#19. I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

Sara Bareilles

#20. It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Blaise Pascal

#21. I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

Alison Sweeney

#22. None of us ever thought to write a song about all the shit that was going on back then: war, revolution, civil war, turmoil. Our songs were trying to take you someplace else.

Levon Helm

#23. A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Tom Morello

#24. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

Petey Pablo

#25. But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't ... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

Tom Araya

#27. I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.

Alex Clare

#28. I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.

Joe Nichols

#29. This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.

SonReal

#30. I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

Neil Peart

#31. Like the best songs, you can't see the next line coming, but once it's sung, how else could it have gone?

David Mitchell

#32. Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong / Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone / So bring it on home and it won't be long / It's gettin' better man!

Noel Gallagher

#33. Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

Billy Corgan

#34. Luke is the sort of boy Taylor Swift could at least three songs out of.

Beth Garrod

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

Carlos Santana

#36. I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

Kate Voegele

#37. I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

Arlo Guthrie

#38. Songs are memories ... Either u smile or get a tear in your eyes..

Honeya

#39. We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Chris Stein

#40. 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.

Ronnie Montrose

#41. 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.

Andy Taylor

#42. I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

Rick Nielsen

#43. Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

Eleanor Catton

#44. I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

Hilary Duff

#45. I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

Karen Elson

#46. When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt, so was sort of a novice folkie ... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Joni Mitchell

#47. I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

Jon Foreman

#48. Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

David Levithan

#49. My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.

John Henrik Clarke

#50. I am only a little rose who grows in deep and difficult places. ~ Song of Songs.

Nicole Arlyn

#51. For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.

Martin Luther

#52. I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

Paula Cole

#53. I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Emmylou Harris

#54. An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

Craig Finn

#55. I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

Jimmy Cliff

#56. I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.

Betty Who

#57. Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

Jamie Lidell

#58. I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

Beth Nielsen Chapman

#59. It's so crazy to see people singing along to songs that aren't even released yet. I'm like, 'How do you even know the lyrics? Have you been watching YouTube?'

Seinabo Sey

#60. The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.

John Legend

#61. Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

Diana Krall

#62. I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.

Benmont Tench

#63. At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

#64. U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

John Lydon

#65. As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.

Dale Pendell

#66. I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.

Tove Styrke

#67. I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Dolly Parton

#68. We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.

Bernard Cornwell

#69. I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

Brandi Carlile

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

Marianne Faithfull

#71. I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

Steve Forbert

#72. To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing.

Conrad Sewell

#73. All birds and men are sure to die but songs may live forever.

Ken Follett

#74. A New Year has tiptoed in.
Let's go forward to meet it.
Let's welcome the 365 days it brings.
Let's live well with love in our hearts towards God and all people.
Let's walk through it's corridors with praise songs on our lips.

Anusha Atukorala

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Moby

#78. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.

John Piper

#79. I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

Billy Burke

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

Robert Wyatt

#81. It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

Ray Lamontagne

#82. Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

Billy Boyd

#83. I think you get the picture. [1976] was a year that like all years, a lot of things happened in. People were on TV or in movies, they wrote songs that were liked more than other songs, while other people excelled at sports, and, as always, a lot of accomplished and famous people died.

Carrie Fisher

#84. And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

Robert Plant

#85. 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

#86. In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

John Dyer Baizley

#87. Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

Doug Martsch

#88. I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.

John Darnielle

#89. 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.

Jon Secada

#90. I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

R. Kelly

#91. The songs we sing to each other are statements. An ongoing discussion in music notes.

Jasinda Wilder

#92. I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

Sue Tompkins

#93. We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

George Harrison

#94. 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

#95. The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

James Mercer

#96. 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

Chris Cornell

#97. I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

John C. Reilly

#98. Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

George Harrison

#99. It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Aaliyah

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

John Wozniak