Songs Quotes

• I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Songs

• 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

• I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

  

  Norbert Leo Butz
  • Way
  • Songs
  • Telling

• 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

• But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Key

• There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Love
  • Cat
  • Lazy

• It's amazing what some people read into songs.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • People
  • Songs

• The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.

  

  Nina Gordon
  • Stories
  • Songs
  • Tell

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Fear
  • Songs
  • I Love

• Desperate times make for desperate songs.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Songs
  • Times
  • Desperate

• I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Wind
  • Tree
  • Songs

• I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Songs
  • Wheel
  • Reinvent

• I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Opinion
  • Loves
  • Reference

• I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

  

  Etta James
  • Songs
  • Learned
  • Rage

• 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

• People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • People
  • Things
  • Write

• It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Think
  • Write
  • Songs

• There are more songs living inside her than there are leaves on her tree.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Tree
  • Songs
  • Leaves

• The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Ideas
  • Songs
  • Push

• Our songs hinge on dynamics — big, chaotic, crashing moments and soft, sensitive moments…Some songs have both, some one or the other. But a lot of them have both.

  

  Nathan Willett
  • Moments
  • Songs
  • Dynamics

• I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely terrible.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Terrible
  • Means
  • Started

• The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Songs
  • Lyrics
  • Narrative

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