Bernie Taupin Quotes
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.Bernie Taupin
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
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
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Every battalion has its marching songs.
Patrick MacGill -
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann -
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra -
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 -
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
Paloma Faith -
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
Patricia Cornwell -
The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also having to listen to opinions, and very valid opinions, of my bandmates. So, sometimes, I'll have to have conversations with them as a producer and then conversations with them as a bandmate.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.
Eugene Mirman -
I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.
Lewis Capaldi -
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
Bernie Taupin