Songs Quotes
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Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.
Bob Marley -
I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.
Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
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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 -
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 -
It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
Steven Van Zandt -
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 -
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.
Richard Thompson -
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
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There are more songs living inside her than there are leaves on her tree.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
Ben Miller -
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 -
It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.
Anzia Yezierska -
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 -
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
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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 -
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
John Prine -
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 -
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
Etta James -
Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.
Harry Shearer
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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 -
James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.
Eric Johnson -
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 -
Desperate times make for desperate songs.
Ezra Furman