Songs You Quotes

#1. Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.

Paul Baribeau

#2. People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

Sonny Bono

#3. Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Janelle Monae

#4. I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

Craig Finn

#5. If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Bono

#6. In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Bob Dylan

#7. Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#8. The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

Tom T. Hall

#9. With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Luke Bryan

#10. All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

Shooter Jennings

#11. You wore your clothes like armor, but in your songs you opened all the way up. You were willing to expose yourself without caring what anyone thought. I wish I was more like that.

Ava Dellaira

#12. For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

Maury Yeston

#13. I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. But it's there. Just because I haven't told anyone doesn't mean it isn't there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can't get out of your head.

Meg Cabot

#15. Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

Jesse Harris

#16. When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

Rebecca Ferguson

#17. In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn.

Nick Hornby

#18. At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Janis Ian

#19. Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book ... well, it can overpower you.

Nick Cave

#20. You didn't knew that "25 Songs You Love That Contain Unexpected True Meanings"... did you?

Deyth Banger

#21. You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.

Dave Gahan

#22. There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

Rick Astley

#23. You live a life, you have a family, you sing your songs. You do not think about these things. You just do them. And then one day, it all make sense to you.

Julio Iglesias

#24. 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

#25. Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

Bo Burnham

#26. The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

Robert Smith

#27. I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car - I still fall for it every time.

Doug Benson

#28. Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.

Rudy Vallee

#29. When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

Lenny Kravitz

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

Peter Steele

#31. There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

Jarvis Cocker

#32. It was pointless. The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through, or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang its songs. You waited for its fire.

Markus Zusak

#33. You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.

Jess Glynne

#34. What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've been obsessed with for months, you're playing them for hundreds of people.

Greg Saunier

#35. You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.

Young Thug

#36. You are a fan of Katy Perry you want her heart you want her soul you love her songs you like her moves she may be a kinda a slut but you still love any way you you dream you laugh you like her songs and you dance-but all you gotta do is have a Teenage Dream.

Katy Perry

#37. You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

Reba McEntire

#38. For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.

Kangana Ranaut

#39. When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Keren Ann

#40. Everything you see in the world around you is content of some kind. The clothes you wear, the songs you sing, the ads you watch, the food you buy, the tunes you hum and the memes you share. Everything is a signal that sends a message.

David Amerland

#41. All the books you've read, have been read by other people and all the songs you've loved, have been heard by other. And that girl that's pretty to you, is pretty to other people.

Stephen Chbosky

#42. There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.

Eric Burdon

#43. When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.

Tony Joe White

#44. When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.

Randy Houser

#45. One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

Philip K. Dick

#46. If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

Fred Frith

#47. You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

Sebastian Stan

#48. IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times.

Timothy Simons

#49. The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Bob Dylan

#50. A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Harlan Howard

#51. During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

Florence Welch

#52. When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

Mick Jagger

#53. I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

Andy Taylor

#54. When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#55. The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are
there, my friend.

Rob Sheffield

#56. Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

Tom Waits

#57. There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.

Tom Waits

#58. On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

Cynthia Weil

#59. There's something missing in the music industry today ... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Jimmy Buffett

#60. It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

Liz Phair

#61. What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Karl Lagerfeld

#62. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.

Emery Lord

#63. Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.

Pam Tillis

#64. If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

Thom Yorke

#65. I'm scared of using the few memories I have and turning them into memories of memories, like songs you've played too many times, and you feel just a bit less excited by each time.

Kate Le Vann

#66. Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

Jason Aldean

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

Billy Boyd

#68. 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

#69. If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

Alan Cumming

#70. I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

Little Richard

#71. I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

Jim Varney

#72. I read what you leave in public spaces. The songs you reference. The quotes you quote. I know it's
about me. I can feel you thinking of me. I want to tell you that I know and admit that I feel the same.
But I can't. Not yet.

Pleasefindthis

#73. Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#74. Somewhere, someone knows the words to the songs you sing.

Pleasefindthis

#75. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.

Suzy Kassem

#76. Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow.

Langston Hughes

#77. That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Mick Ralphs

#78. It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.

Thomas Mars

#79. You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Jeff Tweedy

#80. Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Mark Hoppus

#81. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

Patti Smith

#82. I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.

Dev Hynes

#83. I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

Teena Marie

#84. You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

H.G.Wells

#85. In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

Glenn Tipton

#86. I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Prince Royce

#87. Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

Richard Sherman

#88. I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

James Mercer

#89. If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

Dean Ween

#90. It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

Elvis Costello

#91. If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Joan Baez

#92. Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

Andy Taylor

#93. With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

Frankie Valli

#94. You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.

Gillian Welch

#95. Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.

Nick Cave

#96. My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

Junior Kimbrough

#97. Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Taylor Swift

#98. I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.

Chris Stapleton

#99. I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

Katharine McPhee

#100. All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

John Peel