Songs Quotes

• It wasn’t a challenge because I worked it that way from the outset. I just had to find ways of connecting between songs in different key signatures and different time signatures. Playing it live would mean recruiting a lot of musicians, but not impossible.

  

  Ian Burden The Human League
  • Time
  • Connecting
  • Signatures

• 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 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

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

  

  Andy Fletcher Depeche Mode
  • Care
  • Songs
  • Nation

• The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • King
  • Sadness
  • Mountains

• A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Life
  • She
  • Amazing

• They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Songs
  • Redeemer

• I did the best that I could to try to write you songs.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Songs

• I think some songs are better on vinyl.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Songs
  • I Think
  • Vinyl

• All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Ghosts

• 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 always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Loved
  • Album
  • Studio

• 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.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Song

• Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

  

  Leslie Feist Broken Social Scene
  • Record
  • Excited
  • Tour

• My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

  

  Eric Bachmann
  • Singing
  • Songs
  • Given Up

• Some songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Songs
  • Finish
  • In-depth

• I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Great
  • Radio
  • Writers

• 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.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Music
  • Kind

• Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Change
  • Ability
  • Songs

• 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

• Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

  

  Anne Bosworth Greene
  • Songs
  • Unbearable
  • Whistling

• People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie with unexpected bursts of energy. It's really kind of psychedelic in a way.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • People
  • Energy
  • Orchestra

• I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Songs
  • Experiences
  • Traveling

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