Songs Quotes · Page 3

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

— Mat Kearney

We became the songs we wrote.

— Barry Mann

I believe in item songs.

— Sameera Reddy

Songs are as sad as the listener.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I love bummer songs.

— Ben Gibbard

A life without songs

— Ayumi Hamasaki

“They call me Jabba the Hut.”

— Jabba the Hut

There are so many songs that I hate.

— Derek Waters

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

— Stone Gossard

I was used to people appreciating my songs without acknowledging me.

— Arjun Janya

I like songs. It's a weakness that I have.

— Mani Ratnam

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

— Delta Goodrem

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

I feel there is no harm in recreating songs.

— Randhir Kapoor

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

— Bernadette Devlin

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to…

— Luke Bryan

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

— Donovan

If you pay more attention to the words of her favorite songs, you'll find out everything she's too afraid to say.

— Anonymous

Some people in your life are like those songs in your playlist that you always skip but can never delete!

— Anonymous

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

— Guy Sebastian

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

— Freddie Gibbs

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

— Ellie Goulding

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs…

— Jane Krakowski

A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit?…

— B.o.B

In the 1960s, songs were an integral part of film narration. I have been fortunate to have had some of the best…

— Waheeda Rehman

I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican…

— Bill Laswell

“We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet…

— Lori Majewski

It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in…

— Vince Gill

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are…

— Leonard Cohen

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response…

— Aimee Mann

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in…

— Arto Lindsay

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School…

— Roger McGuinn

“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect…

— Steve Almond

“Free-form jigging, communal shapes in the air; Dancing was easy!...YMCA! YMCA! Arms in the air, mimicking the letters - what a marvelous…

— Gail Honeyman

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band…

— Thomas Gibson

“The song reminds me of my life lately and the way things that happen devastate you so badly but then turn around…

— Love Maia

“That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky And there was a…

— Brian Andreas

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies,…

— James Blunt

I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham…

— Eddie McClintock