Songs Quotes · Page 51

Honest songs aren't written for money.

— Pete Seeger

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.

— James Taylor

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

— Adele

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart

— Vanessa Carlton

I listen to songs that are usually on the music charts.

— Kim Woo-bin

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

— Michael Kiwanuka

I don't really like to explain my songs.

— Yanni

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

— Dolly Parton

People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've…

— Kate Bush

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

— Jakob Dylan

As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I…

— Michael Tolcher

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the…

— Hilary Duff

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The…

— Rihanna

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk…

— Quincy Jones

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that…

— Zooey Deschanel

I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

— Curtis Mayfield

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all…

— Roger McGuinn

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think,…

— Andy Grammer

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice.…

— Daniel Rossen

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then…

— Clinton Sparks

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of…

— Jason Isbell

“All night i have been making songs for you in my head. A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips,…

— George R.R. Martin

I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the…

— Taryn Manning

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English,…

— Juanes

I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.

— Aldous Harding

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

— George Harrison

I have sung all the songs in '96,' and I have dubbed for the film as well.

— Chinmayi

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

— Kyle Gass

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

— David Friedman

I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.

— Kyle Parker

Our big songs were all songs that were never meant to be.

— Jim Kerr

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

— John Frusciante

My songs are very confessional and honest.

— Sarah Harding

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

Who am I to object to songs? It is my livelihood.

— Kishore Kumar

So does 'shuffle' mean playing all the songs you don't want to hear?

— Nikhil Saluja

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.

— Harry Shearer

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

— Dolly Parton

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

— Ray Stevens