Songs Quotes
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I feel like our songs are a journey.
CloZee -
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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I think you’re hard pressed to find another group that had as many facets to them as we did, and going through the songs now there’s an unlimited variety of everything from quasi showtunes to fake speed metal. God almighty, what were we trying to prove?
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
Billy Joel -
Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
Stevie Wonder -
You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!
Bushwick Bill
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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 -
I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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 -
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins Genesis -
Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
Jules Shear -
I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
Peter Tosh -
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
Tommy Shaw Styx
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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
Kelly Clarkson -
Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer.
Jimmy Griffin Black Tie -
I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.
Corey Haim -
I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
Chris Smith