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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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
Mark Stoermer The Killers -
With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.
Robert Trujillo Metallica -
Now we've finally been able to give them a common home where they work really well as a whole, which is a relief. We didn't want to see them just trickle out randomly or even worse just sit in the vault until the next record or who knows how long. So that's the beauty of technology: We can get songs out to our fans whenever and however we want.
Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World -
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