Songs Quotes

• At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Play
  • Old
  • Set

• When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Different
  • Songs

• It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Songs
  • Choose
  • Bored

• We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Songs
  • Ages
  • Different People

• It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Want
  • Feelings
  • Movies

• Playing my songs is the way I cope with life.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Life
  • Songs

• Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Image

• The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.

  

  Estelle
  • Records
  • Track
  • I Wrote

• A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like 'Wait For an Answer' and 'Nada One' would be fun, plus fan favorites like 'Love Mistake' and 'Language of Love.' Endless possibilities.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Dream
  • Artists
  • Joni Mitchell

• I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Listening

• Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

  

  Andy Fletcher Depeche Mode
  • Care
  • Songs
  • Nation

• 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
  • Done
  • Legacy
  • Represent

• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Rest

• My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Songs
  • Consumption
  • Discard

• I've done songs, which have gone out to other artists or whatever, with me singing on, but they're just demos. There is a song called CANDY IN YOUR HANDS, which I think nearly became a Def Leppard B-side. It's got me playing on it and singing, cause no one else performed on the track. So, not in a Def Leppard sense, but we always release "rare" songs, so there's always a chance.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Chance
  • Artists
  • Track

• If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

  

  Adele
  • Writing
  • Writer
  • Singer

• If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

  

  Ruth Brown
  • Songs
  • Own
  • ERA

• I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.

  

  Robin Zander Cheap Trick
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Radio

• It's going to be an external player, I'm not joking, five songs, and its hopefully going to be out in April.

  

  Andy Nicholson Arctic Monkeys
  • Songs

• You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Work
  • History
  • Past

• I reckon we'll play the majority of the record and then we'll probably end the set with some of the older stuff that we can include improvisation on. I think the game plan is to play all the new stuff as individual songs, unless something opens up and we recognise it as a spot to fool around with.

  

  Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
  • Songs
  • Improvisation

• 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
  • Songs
  • Title
  • Favorite Thing

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