Songs Quotes
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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
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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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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'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
Paloma Faith
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One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
George Benson
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Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.
Brent Smith
Shinedown
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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
Bryan Ferry
Roxy Music
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I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.
Andrew Bazzi
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For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.
Fleur East
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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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We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
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It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.
Will Sheff
Okkervil River
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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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The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
Estelle
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It's the combination of songs and styles the band uses that makes them so unique. They have diversity and a witty flare about them that audiences relate to.
J. M. Roberts
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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
