Songs Quotes
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When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
John Prine
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My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
Richard Simmons
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The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.
John Prine
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I wanted to get a guitar when I was 13 so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".
Ezra Furman