Bryan Ferry Quotes
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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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 -
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 -
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. -
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
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 -
I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra -
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
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That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.
Michael Jackson -
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas -
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music