Songs Quotes · Page 54

If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so…

— Marilyn Manson

“The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.”

— Neil Gaiman

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

— Bryan Adams

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

— Shaun Fleming

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

— T-Pain

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

— Mike Will Made It

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Songs that people think are about my life are actually not about my life at all, and in fact are about friends…

— Maisie Peters

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I…

— John Lydon

There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to…

— Vonda Shepard

Whenever I'd go anywhere with my dad - in his 1980 burgundy Dodge Ram - he'd always listen to mix tapes of…

— Ryan Ross

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot…

— Shania Twain

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be…

— Desmond Dekker

I like to be on most of my songs. I think being on your songs makes it all the more special in…

— Gabby Barrett

A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that…

— Ryan Adams

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in…

— M.I.A

Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a…

— Mark Foster

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not…

— Chris Cornell

A Girl's Favorite Songs... Will Tell You More About How She Feels... Then Her Lips Ever Will...

— Anonymous

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get…

— Mavis Staples

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

— Kiesza

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

— Ian Brown

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

— Kacey Musgraves

I try to find songs that say something about what I feel, songs that deal with the things people feel in their…

— Lorrie Morgan

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have…

— Del Shannon

Each child you have, you love them, but it's a different feeling. That's how it is with songs on the radio.

— Gabby Barrett

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording…

— Tom Scholz

There are a lot of songs that, you know, just get me excited because they create a certain, I guess, set of…

— Anthony Fantano

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me.

— Sam Fender

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents…

— Erik Parker

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

— Nick Cave

I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

— Astrid S

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't,…

— Johnny Ramone

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

— Charles Koppelman

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

— Benmont Tench

We have songs like 'Holiday in My Head,' which has that 'All Star' vibe to it.

— Steve Harwell

If our love is tragedy why are you my remedy? If our loves insanity why are you my clarity?

— Anonymous

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

— Leonard Cohen

I've been in T- shirts and jeans since I was a kid. I don't have to show you a bunch of my…

— Ashley McBryde