Songs Quotes

• 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
  • Songs
  • Singer
  • Captured

• If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Songs
  • Cares
  • TV set

• 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
  • Write
  • Fans
  • Limelight

• I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Write

• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Songs
  • Radio
  • Shower

• All our songs are about love, travel and death.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Love
  • Death
  • Travel

• You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

  

  Lil Dicky
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Stories
  • Musician
  • Albums

• Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the background of the first Project album.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Project
  • Album
  • Manager

• When I'm writing songs, some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

  

  Prince
  • Life
  • Gift
  • Pen

• We've written something like 900 songs in all.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Something

• She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Words
  • Sailors
  • Blind men

• 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

• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• 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

• 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
  • Songs
  • Instance

• 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 started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Music
  • Guitar

• 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

• 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

• We're pretty much taking all the songs that have worked the best in the past and we're using those and all of the new songs. In the short time that we've got to play them, we're trying to use what ones work the best.

  

  Nikolai Fraiture The Strokes
  • Past
  • Best
  • Using

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Songs
  • Audiences
  • Arrangements

• Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • Songs
  • Therapy
  • Cheaper

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