Brett Dennen Quotes
People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.Brett Dennen
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 will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
Victoria Justice -
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
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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 -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
Taylor Swift -
Every battalion has its marching songs.
Patrick MacGill -
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
Kate Voegele
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville -
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 -
We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann -
I believe you have to live the songs.
Tammy Wynette -
I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.
Loudon Wainwright III
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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
Chris Stein Blondie -
I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
Bono U2 -
The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
Zachary Quinto -
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
William Butler Yeats -
This meets the density, quality, cost structure and scalability needs of the diverse embedded market.
Ian Williams Battles -
People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.
Brett Dennen