Songs Quotes
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I learn my songs by ear.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.
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It is sometimes fun when you party and listen to those fun songs but they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.
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We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
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All my songs are where I am.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
