Songs Quotes
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
Billy Joel -
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
Walt Whitman
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I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
Hyuna -
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
Don Henley The Eagles -
My songs are like my kids.
Billy Joel -
When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.
Eric Hutchinson -
Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.
Alan Menken -
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
John Anthony Genzale
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I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
A lot of the songs that we're playing live we haven't played in like 20 years
Mick Mars Mötley Crüe -
Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.
Georgia Nott Broods -
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
Jimmy Webb -
When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?
John Prine -
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Susannah McCorkle -
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 -
I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.
Róisín Murphy -
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day -
The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'
Peter Yarrow
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I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
Hasil Adkins -
I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.
Sigrid -
You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.
Denison Witmer