Songs Quotes
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There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode -
I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
Dan Hill -
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
Esther Renay Dean -
I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
Olly Murs -
A lot of our fans have grown up, but they've stuck by us for the songs that dig a little deeper.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
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 -
I don't know if my songs fit in films.
Ed Sheeran -
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”
Adele -
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
Valerie June -
I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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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 The Byrds -
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
Jackson Browne -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent -
I actually have two songs I did with Nicki Minaj. We didn't even plan on doing it that way, but it was an organic connection and just a really solid connection she and I had musically.
Ciara -
Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.
Washed Out -
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
Floyd Skloot -
Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
Madeleine Peyroux -
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