Songs Quotes
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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
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I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
Lewis Capaldi
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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
Roy Wood
Electric Light Orchestra
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For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.
Anna Ternheim
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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury
Queen
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
Joe Perry
Aerosmith
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When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.
Hillary Scott
Lady Antebellum
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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.
Lord Byron
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My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.
Brenda Russell
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I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
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I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
Andy Gibb
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I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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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
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If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.
Richard Simmons
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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
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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
