Songs Quotes
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All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
Beth Nielsen Chapman -
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
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I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
I remember writing ‘All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.
Cheyenne Kimball -
It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs like "Peace Trail". It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.
Mystikal -
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
Ezra Pound -
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
Etta James
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It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
Colin Meloy -
Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.
Danny Carey -
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 -
Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.
Martin Luther -
Your power comes from the songs.
Ethel Wilson -
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
Elvis Costello -
It's an amalgamation of the different types of shows I've done. There will be some songs where I'm playing solo on the more acoustic tunes and others will be full-blown, plugged-in rock-out numbers. So the show will be done in many stages.
Eric Johnson -
I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective.
Beth Nielsen Chapman -
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
Petra Haden -
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
Scott Ian Anthrax -
Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
Ezra Furman
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan -
Songs are special. Songs are like trees. You plant these seeds and watch them grow, and you never know how people are going to respond. That's one of the most beautiful things about music.
Isom Innis -
I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
Norbert Leo Butz -
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement