Songs Quotes

• I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Believe
  • Songs
  • Crap

• If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Record

• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  

  William Blake
  • Child
  • Pipe
  • Lamb

• I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Career
  • Pay
  • Plan

• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Songs
  • Radio
  • Shower

• It’s a lot of fun because we can do the songs in a different way and be a little more adventurous, so that feels really good y’know. And there’s the choice from 10 albums, over 100 songs, to figure out what the set is going to be.

  

  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
  • Songs
  • Set
  • Figure Out

• The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Write

• I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Music
  • Guitar

• We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Songs
  • Albums
  • Recorded

• You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Life
  • Real
  • Try

• 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
  • Hate
  • Songs
  • Credit

• The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Heart
  • Cries
  • Visualize

• You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

  

  Roger Glover
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Playing

• On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

  

  Stompin' Tom Connors
  • Songs
  • Album
  • Canadian

• A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Dream
  • Fantasy
  • I Love It

• We were playing a lot of songs that Kiss hadn't played in years, or haven't played at all. One day, Doc McGhee, the manager, came into the dressing room, and said, 'We really need to film and record this show, because it's so good. It's probably the best Kiss performance I've seen.' So we said, 'OK.' That was the spark that got the whole thing going.

  

  Tommy Thayer Kiss
  • Kiss
  • Record
  • Performance

• And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Green

• Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Songs
  • Heavens
  • Lord's Grace

• I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Songs
  • State

• I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.

  

  George Benson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Performances

• Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Love
  • Power
  • Death

• That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Mirror

• You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

  

  Bushwick Bill
  • Kids
  • Nature
  • Movies

• I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

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