Songs Quotes
-
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.
-
I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.
-
It wasn’t verbal learning lessons… it was harnessing the broad strokes of the songs.
-
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
-
You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.
-
When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
-
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.
-
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.
-
I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
-
When George Harrison died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.
-
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
-
Some songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.
-
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
-
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.
-
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
-
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.
-
If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
-
Songs aren't owned by anyone.
-
I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.
-
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
-
I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.
-
With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
-
The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.
-
The mixture of electronics and guitars was a positive thing that made the songs stay with people.
