Top 100 Songs To Quotes
#1. We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.
David Levithan
#2. As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.
Johnny Ramone
#3. I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.
Steve Martin
#4. I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.
Richard Thompson
#5. Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
Eminem
#6. 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
#8. I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.
Joshua Radin
#9. People are like songs to me. About 60 seconds in, I'll know whether or not to add them to my 'favorites.
Crystal Woods
#10. Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.
Andrew Ripp
#11. I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.
Alan Licht
#12. Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man's audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.
Maxim Gorky
#13. I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends.
Matt Sorum
#14. Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
William Watson
#15. I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
Mavis Staples
#16. I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.
Daya
#17. Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.
Harvey MacKay
#18. Songs to Herself:
She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
Brian Andreas
#19. I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.
George Strait
#20. I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.
Beyonce Knowles
#21. I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
Taylor Swift
#22. I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.
Scott Weiland
#23. If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B.B. King
#24. I've always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that I play. I'm simple, and I want to be able to sing my songs to anybody.
Andrae Crouch
#25. I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye ... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!
Jeremih
#26. I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.
Orianthi
#27. I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
Siobhan Fahey
#28. Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.
George R R Martin
#29. You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
Rick Astley
#30. I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.
Ryan Cabrera
#31. Am I the only one who measures time using songs? Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that's not to long!
Kendrick Lamar
#32. There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
Garet Garrett
#33. 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
#34. From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
Shawn Amos
#35. The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.
Dan Simmons
#36. 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
#37. 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
#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. Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
Henry Louis Gates
#40. 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
#41. Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
Quincy Jones
#42. I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.
Leona Lewis
#43. How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use?
A hope, to sing by gladly? or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to interfuse?
A shade, in which to sing - of palm or pine?
A grave, on which to rest from singing? Choose.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#44. I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
Mark Linkous
#45. There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
Stevie Wonder
#46. There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
Pritam Chakraborty
#47. The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
#48. I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
Lou Reed
#49. Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.
Ted Nugent
#50. Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
Jim Morrison
#51. 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
#52. I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.
Jacques Villeneuve
#53. For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.
Jon Foreman
#54. We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
Edie Brickell
#55. Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did
Michele Young-Stone
#56. 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
#57. That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.
Alison Elliott
#58. The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
Henry Rollins
#59. It takes a lot of good songs to write a great song!
Sydney Sierota
#60. I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
John Lydon
#61. You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
Bryan Ferry
#62. I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.
John Lennon
#63. Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.
Michael Reed
#64. I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest.
Sean Lennon
#65. Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.
Sam Hinton
#66. Humans have created too many beautiful songs to settle on one particular genre. Whether techno or opera, it doesn't matter, as long as it has that certain edge, that something that makes it more. You just have to be able, or simply in the mood, to listen to it.
Natalie Herzer
#67. When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess.
Jason Reeves
#68. You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
Reba McEntire
#69. I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
#70. I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
Roky Erickson
#71. When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.
Lauren Willig
#72. Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.
George Thorogood
#73. This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
Eddie Vedder
#74. We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!
Graham Russell
#75. A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
Brittany Howard
#76. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen
#77. When I have sung my songs to you, I'll sing no more,' goes the old ballad. But for one faithful listener, Nelson Eddy is still singing.
Ruskin Bond
#78. I've learned to live with rage. In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
Etta James
#79. Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.
Seinabo Sey
#80. Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
Frank Zappa
#81. 'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
Brenda Lee
#82. The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz
#83. I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
Jewel
#84. We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.
David Pajo
#85. My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.
John Legend
#86. Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
Jerry Garcia
#87. I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.
Mystikal
#88. The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world.
Planningtorock
#89. The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
Taylor Hanson
#90. I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
Al Yankovic
#91. DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.
TyDi
#92. 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
#94. Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.
Psy
#95. I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood ... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'
Mark Salling
#96. Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!
Matt Squire
#97. I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.
Jon Foreman
#98. From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
Jonny Diaz
#99. It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
Greg Graffin
#100. I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
Ester Dean
