Songs Quotes · Page 52

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael…

— Matisyahu

While there is a typical introduction song for the hero, there are songs that represent each phase of the characters' journey.

— Mani Sharma

Life isn't an iPod to listen to your favorite songs. It's a radio, adjust yourself to enjoy whatever comes in it.

— Anonymous

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

— Joe Bonamassa

...And any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored, cause my heart is yours:)

— Taylor Swift

Some songs we heard again and again not because we don't understand it but because we feel it very much.

— Nishan Panwar

Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the…

— Jubin Nautiyal

In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so…

— Jason Mraz

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of…

— Liz Phair

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend…

— Mac DeMarco

I have these songs that I've been playing for so many years. They're so intimate and close to me. And these are…

— Chris Carmack

A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn…

— Jeff Buckley

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight.…

— Christopher Cross

I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists,…

— Adam Kluger

Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing,…

— George Harrison

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine…

— John Prine

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

— Graham Nash

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

— Matt Skiba

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

There's a time that you realize that you're not gonna get out of a room without playing certain songs.

— Billy Squier

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

— Mac DeMarco

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to…

— Skylar Grey

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

— James Blunt

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches…

— Trace Cyrus

I don't feel that I have achieved anything, I just want people to love my songs.

— Javed Ali

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

— Matt Tong

I wanna make more songs than anybody, I wanna be the oldest rapper who is active.

— Too Short

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

— Dave Keuning

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

— Gloria Gaynor

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

— Chuck Berry

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

— Paul Gilbert

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

— Elvis Costello

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad…

— Scott McClanahan

My music is nostalgic. The early Neil Sedaka songs are always catchy and very singable.

— Neil Sedaka

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

— Dolores O'Riordan