Freddie Mercury Quotes
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.Freddie Mercury Queen
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 wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
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
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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 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 -
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.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann -
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
Adele -
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
Ted Yoho -
Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.
Pham Nhat Vuong -
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury Queen