Songs Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Artist
  • Songs
  • Wrote

• 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

• 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 grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Inspired

• I think some songs are better on vinyl.

  

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

• Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • People
  • Songs
  • Songwriter

• No matter how well a band performs, if its songs are a pile of junk, the group might as well not put the effort into it.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Junk
  • Performs

• Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

  

  Billy Joel
  • Songs
  • Starting
  • Franchise

• We’ll rehearse as much as we can and as many songs as we can.

  

  Joanne Catherall The Human League
  • Songs
  • Rehearse

• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce...

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Couple
  • Songs
  • Credit

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

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Ghosts

• A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Band
  • Ideas
  • Stage

• 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.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Songs
  • Changing
  • Guards

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Songs

• 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

• The mixture of electronics and guitars was a positive thing that made the songs stay with people.

  

  Nick Feldman Wang Chung
  • Songs
  • Guitars
  • Mixture

• 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

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