Songs For Kids Quotes

#1. There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.

Jake Shimabukuro

#2. I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

Faith Evans

#3. I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

Billy Joel

#4. Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Jerry Leiber

#5. I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

Faith Evans

#6. The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Jonathan Davis

#7. My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#8. Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.

Jean-Louis Murat

#9. I started writing songs when I was a little kid actually. I wrote a song about Catwoman and I wrote a song about Leprechauns, as a little kid.

Bonnie McKee

#10. I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.

Bob Seger

#11. 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

#12. Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

Rosanne Cash

#13. Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

Malachy McCourt

#14. When michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

Sean Lock

#15. When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

Taylor Swift

#16. Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

Paul Weller

#17. I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

Five For Fighting

#18. You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.

Daron Malakian

#19. I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.

Brandon Flowers

#20. As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

Pharrell Williams

#21. It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.

Adam Young

#22. People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Nick Hornby

#23. I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.

Jenny Lewis

#24. You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature ...
But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

Bushwick Bill

#25. First you love the music that your parents love - and then, later in life, you love the songs your kids love.

Elin Hilderbrand

#26. 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.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#27. My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Richard Hawley

#28. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.

Melissa McCarthy

#29. I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.

Kim Wilde

#30. As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

Judd Apatow

#31. The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

Rudy Vallee

#32. I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

Jon Bon Jovi

#33. The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

Noel Gallagher

#34. My whole career was launched in such sort of poptastic style with 'Kids In America', and I liked - and like - being poptastic. Songs big on melody, high on energy, lots of attitude ... what's wrong with that?

Kim Wilde

#35. People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.

Jennifer Egan

#36. I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

Frank Black

#37. 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.

Margaret Whiting

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

Bo Bice

#41. Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Frankie Avalon

#42. When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

Tanya Tucker

#43. My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason ... but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

David Pajo

#44. As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

Jonny Greenwood

#45. I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

Paul Bettany

#46. Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

Peter Blegvad

#47. My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Donald Fagen

#48. We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

Maurice Gibb

#49. I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

Chris Carmack

#50. My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.

Seal

#51. People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

Amanda Shires

#52. I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.

Jason Isbell

#53. I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Edie Falco

#54. My songs are like my kids.

Billy Joel