Songs Quotes

• That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

  

  Etta James
  • Songs
  • Hold
  • Begins

• When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Jobs
  • Songs
  • Mixed

• Her album is very much what she wanted to say, and it's funny going through the process with her and knowing what these songs are about and watching her mature into what she is now an artist as opposed to an 'American Idol' winner, ... That was probably the most fun I've had on a session. She was so much fun and very laid-back, but very sincere.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Funny
  • Artist
  • Album

• All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world.

  

  Rob Halford Judas Priest
  • Love
  • Message
  • Beliefs

• Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Kind
  • Songs
  • Most

• I have seen this demo of six songs that began floating around in 1996 claiming that Commit Suicide had written those songs. I did have a synth band called Commit Suicide between 1984-1986 with two gentlemen called Jens Andersson and Jens Svensson, and two of the songs on this demo where written and performed by us. The problem is that the other four songs (are) skinhead music with very racist lyrics. These songs have absolutely nothing to do with Commit Suicide. We did not write or perform those songs that were attributed to us.

  

  Ulf Gunnar Ekberg Ace of Base
  • Songs

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Death
  • Songs

• I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Live
  • New York
  • L.A.

• Jerry Cantrell told me this: 'You've gotta live life before you can write songs about it.' ...We've been on the road for a year and a half, two years straight. We gotta live normal life and experience normal life for a little while. So, that's what we've been doing for the last eight months.

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Songs

• We were feeling desperate, We started writing songs; Question Mark would record everything we practiced. I came up with some chords, and Question Mark started singing Too Many Teardrops.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Record
  • Desperate
  • Chords

• We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Thought
  • Because
  • Posterity

• I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Studio
  • Planned
  • Worked Out

• I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Things

• We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Dance
  • Songs
  • Signature

• When we started this band, we always concentrated on the songs. If we had five good songs together, we wouldn't just slap four more 'okay' ones together just so we could go out and play. That's why we spent so much time in that spoon factory in Sheffield before we went out to play. We did that first gig only because Steve was so pissed off and threatening to quit if we didn't go and play a gig. But there was always that feeling there - that we have to do it right. Or we don't do it at all.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Play
  • Band
  • Factory

• I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • People
  • Writing
  • Around

• A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, Shuffle Your Feet, was from before we were a band even. We didnt want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didnt have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band thats been a big element right from the beginning.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Band
  • Side
  • Element

• Music in general is very interpretative, isn’t it? It’s amazing how many songs in history have been misinterpreted but in an amazing way that means something to someone and that’s the beauty of music really, it’s what you make of it. And I think our songs are the same really, they’re no different, and if people pick out lines that mean something in their lives…it’s all we wanted to do: to mean something to people.

  

  Adam Anderson Hurts
  • Music
  • History
  • Interpretative

• I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.

  

  Hyuna
  • People
  • Like
  • Even

• It’s a lot of fun because we can do the songs in a different way and be a little more adventurous, so that feels really good y’know. And there’s the choice from 10 albums, over 100 songs, to figure out what the set is going to be.

  

  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
  • Songs
  • Set
  • Figure Out

• I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

  

  Demetria McKinney
  • Music
  • Ugly
  • Fact

• I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • People
  • Long
  • Dreams

• To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Opinion
  • Records
  • Stock

• I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Songs
  • Rush

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