Songs Quotes

• Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.

  

  John Prine
  • Songs
  • Hobby
  • Getaways

• A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Love
  • Imagination
  • Dreams

• In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Songs
  • Concerts

• Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Songs
  • Afraid
  • Sing

• 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 have confidence in the songs that I've written and I'm not going to change anything.

  

  Tones and I
  • Change
  • Confidence
  • Songs

• People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Write
  • Born
  • Songs

• The live thing is separate from the record for me. I have to figure out a way to make the songs work live. It's always going to be different than it is on a record, because every record I've made, there are people playing parts on there that are not going to be coming on tour with me. As much as still feeling connected to it, it's more like rediscovering.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Record
  • Separate
  • Rediscovering

• 'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.

  

  John Prine
  • Love
  • Character
  • House

• 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
  • Listening
  • Mess
  • Combines

• There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Songs
  • I Believe
  • Musicians

• I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Book
  • Songs

• We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Guarantee

• So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Energy
  • Band
  • Songs

• Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturned love; But now I think there is no unreturned love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not returned; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Way
  • Songs
  • I Love

• I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Melodies

• 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
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Get Out

• Songs are able to transport us all back to specific moments within our past, invoking people, places, feelings and emotions.

  

  David Longdon
  • Moments
  • Songs
  • Emotions

• You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

  

  John Prine
  • Girl
  • Songwriter
  • Especially

• People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

  

  Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • Songs
  • Because
  • Frustrating

• Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Hero
  • Belief
  • Meeting

• I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Work
  • Write
  • Meaning

• Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Positive
  • Things
  • Songs

• The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Songs
  • Records
  • Phone

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