Song Quotes
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Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.
Jamie Cullum
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up - a sincere one - is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.
Frank Zappa
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I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.
Deborah Cox
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As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.
Robert Lee Hatfield
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There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.
Kurt Vile
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Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.
David Knopfler
Dire Straits
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
Loudon Wainwright III
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I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.
Cole Swindell
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
Zac Brown Band
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You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.
Max Martin
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I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Christine Flores
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
Sammy Cahn
