Songs Quotes
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I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
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Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of Bob Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.
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Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.
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I like albums where all the songs are written in one go. If you're trying to create the number-one album with the best songs ever, I get why you'd want to write for three years and pick the best ones, but for me, I'd rather hear a group of songs that are all expressing a state, or time of your life. I think it's more that.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.
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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.
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She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.
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They write songs about California girls for a reason.
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Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world.
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Your power comes from the songs.
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It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.
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My music chart rankings need to be good so that I can have the money to produce another album. I would like to hear that I am a trustworthy artist, that just hearing my name makes people want to listen to all of my other songs.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen.
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I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
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Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identify our music as that. I think that by writing pop, or instant, accessible or hopefully catchy music, it shoes you into bigger audiences because it seems that more people like that music. I think the possibilities are endless if you stick to a simplistic short song; the music can be as wild and bizarre as you want it to be, as long as at the core of it, there's something really strong.
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I think she could have infused even Spice Girls songs with a touch of melancholy. (On Billie Holiday)
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It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
