Songs About Love Quotes

#1. Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love - yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This

Erich Fromm

#2. We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

Graham Russell

#3. I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

Duffy

#4. When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.

Mayer Hawthorne

#5. When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.

Joan Jett

#6. I'm starting to hate the whiny teenage songs about love and nothing.

Kathryn Stockett

#7. I can't tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl ... And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girl's hand in the darkness ... All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.

Jennifer Flackett

#8. Today we hear a lot of songs about love, and the mention of the big love thing on the way. You know what I would do? I would buy a gun and bar my door because I would know there is a storm of hypocrisy brewing.

Alan W. Watts

#9. I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Mayer Hawthorne

#10. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. I love you too, I say. No wonder the whole world writes songs about those words.

Cath Crowley

#12. Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

Courtney Love

#13. I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.

John Grooters

#14. 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

#15. It's all heartbreak, death, and unrequited love." "Well, that is what most songs are about," said Will. "Requited love is ideal but doesn't make much of a ballad

Cassandra Clare

#16. There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.

Celine Dion

#17. Ninety percent of the songs and movies we listen to and see are based on love. We like to talk most about the things we don't have.

Arathi Menon

#18. All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that would be used and how direct we wanted to be.

Jordan Rudess

#19. We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

Diana Krall

#21. So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Jackson Browne

#22. I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

Kat Graham

#23. This is what all the love songs are about, the moment when
you find your own way forward with someone and there is no turning back.

Caroline Kepnes

#24. When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

Peter Steele

#25. I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.

Gene Watson

#26. There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

Courtney Love

#27. 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

#28. My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.

Kacy Catanzaro

#29. I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

Tom Jones

#30. When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

Taylor Swift

#31. The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

India.Arie

#32. I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy's universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way.

Jennifer Weiner

#33. All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

Sarah Silverman

#34. I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Dierks Bentley

#35. I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

Brie Larson

#36. And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.

Nick Hornby

#37. When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

Catie Curtis

#38. Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love.
Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world were by men, so what was she talking about?

Josh Lanyon

#39. Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.
Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.

James Joyce

#40. Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

David Chase

#41. I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Adele

#42. Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Colbie Caillat

#43. There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.

Bethany Cosentino

#44. 'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.

Josh Turner

#45. I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Devendra Banhart

#46. My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

OMI

#47. He shrugged. Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

Philippa Gregory

#48. The thing about songwriting," John Dogg was saying to someone, "is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can't get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs are about unrequited love." "Except 'Green Onions,' " Ronnie said. "Which isn't about love at all.

Rachel Kushner

#49. Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

Pierce Brosnan

#50. I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.

Mac DeMarco

#51. I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

Ben Gibbard

#52. Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

Jack White

#53. Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes it back to basics.

Kerry Ellis

#54. 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

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

Diana Krall

#56. People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

Thalia

#57. Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

Ben Gibbard

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

Peter Steele

#59. Let's face it songs are about love, which is, I love you, I don't love you, come here, go away, I miss you, I don't miss you. I'm lonely. I'm not lonely. It's, it's all about affairs of the heart. And we can all relate to those.

Jeff Barry

#60. I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Roger Daltrey

#61. I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Matt Berninger

#62. When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.

Joan Jett

#63. When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"

Mike Birbiglia

#64. When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Rufus Wainwright

#65. Everyone has their definition of love. There have been countless songs sung about it. A gazillion books, articles, and poems written about it. There are experts on love who will tell you how to get it, keep it, and get over it.

Alison G. Bailey

#66. I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Pink

#67. That little Miley Cyrus ... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

Dolly Parton

#68. I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

Randy Newman

#69. David had apparently been busy writing more songs about the glory of doing his wife.
Ah, true love and stuff.

Kylie Scott

#70. All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world.

Rob Halford

#71. The saddest songs are always about love.

Nora Roberts

#72. I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

Joel Plaskett

#73. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.

Zooey Deschanel

#74. I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

Scotty McCreery

#75. I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.

Jenny Lewis

#76. Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Frankie Cosmos

#77. One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

Debbie Gibson

#78. Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

Rick Warren

#79. But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

Amy Grant

#80. One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs.

Michael Cunningham

#81. I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Sarah Dessen

#82. 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

#83. I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

J. Tillman

#84. I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life - about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

Jewel

#85. I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Siobhan Fahey

#86. I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

Courtney Love

#87. The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Argus Hamilton

#88. All our songs are about love, travel and death.

Jim Morrison

#89. I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for the love of their life and never fining it, and we've got it and it isn't worth a damn to you.

Jodi Picoult

#90. What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Ann Reed

#91. Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

Elvis Costello

#92. I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.

Jimi Westbrook

#93. He's become the one the songs are about, and while part of me knows he's probably worth that, another part is yelling at me to slow the fuck down.

John Green

#94. It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that people can relate to, that we love, that they will love, that we will enjoy playing live.

Chuck Comeau

#95. Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.

J. Robbins

#96. Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Drake

#97. I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

Mark Ronson

#98. It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

Nate Ruess

#99. A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Ransom Riggs

#100. When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.

Ariel Winter