Songs Quotes
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots -
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
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Sarah Vaughan -
We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.
Richard Simmons -
My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.
Loudon Wainwright III -
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
Scott Ian Anthrax
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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 -
I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.
Harlan Howard -
We wrote with Harry. It was a lot of fun. He's a real dude actually. We've no idea if those songs will make it yet, though. It's a long process. It's great to work with other people - it's good to flex the muscle.
Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol -
I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.
Suga BTS -
It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.
Brent Smith Shinedown
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I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Rob fought this so hard. He hired a musicologist in England to analyse the song. It turns out that musicologists use a scale of twelve notes and if eight of those notes are present in both songs, then the accused, us, is deemed guilty. Which we were. Rob wouldn’t have it, so he then got an American musicologist to analyse it. He said the same. We lost again. John Denver got his per cent cut and a writer’s credit. Warners wanted to take it off the album on any subsequent pressings, but we said no. I still don’t hear it now. Denver died in 1997, shortly after it was eventually settled. God, imagine if we did that with all the tunes that sound like us? We’d make a fortune. Humh . . . there’s a thought.
Peter Hook New Order -
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
Melora Hardin -
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 -
It’s good to hear those songs performed so well - congrats to the band.
Alan Lancaster Status Quo -
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
Andy Gibb
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For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.
Leon Russell -
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 -
All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.
Brendan Kennelly -
These are songs that we were working on around the time of recording Futures, but that just didn't seem to fit on the record.
Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World