Songs Quotes

• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman`s
  • Proverbs
  • Fickleness

• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

  

  Eugene Chadbourne
  • Songs
  • Building
  • Bridges

• Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Songs
  • My Mind
  • Continuity

• What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

  

  Ann Reed
  • Words
  • Songs
  • Poem

• I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Experience
  • Write
  • Books

• About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Songs
  • About

• 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.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Write
  • Record
  • Batches

• Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Record

• It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Write
  • Emotion
  • Lyrics

• We've always been a prolific band. Writing good songs has never been a problem.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Problem
  • Band
  • Songs

• It was really important to us to strip back the songs to the way that they were written. The way that I think music brings us together, like we’re in the living room, so I can kind of push the walls down. And especially with some of these more sensitive songs, and to present them in that raw acoustic way was a really exciting way to introduce the new music.

  

  Max Ehrich
  • Important
  • Together
  • Introduce

• I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Breathing

• No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.

  

  Mike Dean
  • People
  • Right
  • Being

• Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Secret
  • Triumph
  • Vulnerabilities

• When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Play
  • Force
  • Songs

• I'm a singer. I play keyboards, acoustic and electric 6 & 12 string guitars, bass guitar, flute, mandolin, accordion, percussion, dulcimer, psaltry. When I write songs, often the material will suggest certain instrumentation, so I endeavor to play these parts on their specific instruments.

  

  David Longdon
  • Songs
  • Singer
  • Instruments

• I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective.

  

  Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • Songs
  • Commercial

• My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

  

  Paul McDonald
  • Real
  • Write
  • Songs

• I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Songs
  • Stuff
  • Research

• My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

  

  David Pajo
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Happy
  • Relationships
  • In Love

• The new school in the Swiss village Frauenkirch where Kirchner lived since c. 1919 was inaugurated yesterday. It was a celebration with songs, dancing and speeches, followed by drinking such as I have not seen or experienced in decades. Everyone sat in the 'Post', the village council, the president of the council, the farmers, every one of one accord and friendly. They made a point of including me and so there I was, sitting once again amongst these people who had received me with such kindness and friendliness on the Alp twenty years ago. The relief in the school, made by Kirchner has found favour and was mentioned often in the speeches.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • School
  • President
  • Celebration

• Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A I believe that, or B I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Words
  • Songs
  • Lyrics

• I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.

  

  James Jackson Toth
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Exist

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