Songs Quotes · Page 57

I was thrilled when I was offered the opportunity to compose music for three songs penned by Karunanidhi in 'Paasakiligal.'

— Vidyasagar

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it…

— Jakob Dylan

I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and…

— Phoebe Robinson

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

— Alice Ripley

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as…

— Idina Menzel

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they…

— Jay Sean

I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

— Kali Uchis

All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.

— Charli XCX

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the…

— Keith Urban

A lot of my songs are freestyles to be honest; they are about hyping me and my girls up in the moment.…

— Sexyy Red

Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the…

— Jonathan Miles

Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by…

— Beth Hart

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the…

— Tom Lehrer

“I can’t admit publicly that some of my bestselling songs are my least favorite ones to perform ... because I wasn’t in…

— Lorelei James

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and…

— Michael Franti

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad…

— Jason Mraz

“I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.”

— Ricardo Arjona

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to…

— Mat Kearney

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger…

— John Entwistle

I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and…

— Borns

Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head

— Robert Fulton Abernethy

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by…

— Jason Pierce

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

— Rostam Batmanglij

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

— Enrique Iglesias

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

— Dick Dale

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really…

— Miley Cyrus

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

— John Fogerty

These days the whole 'American Idol' and 'The X Factor' and all that stuff has opened up doors for songwriters like me.…

— Chesney Hawkes

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

— Martina McBride

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.

— Chesney Hawkes

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

— Mika

In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they…

— Maluma

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the…

— Johnny Cash

I've written plenty of songs that are not tailored for me, writing six different songs to fit six different artists' visions.

— Matthew Koma

We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.

— Benji Madden

It's always the theme that defines the songs and background score of any film.

— Devi Sri Prasad

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones -…

— Rick Nielsen

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

— Yael Naim

I lived a lot of those songs, I lived 'Time to Creep,' I lived 'Love You Bad.'

— Mark Morrison

Women need a lot of understanding, and they need songs to help them express themselves.

— Lorrie Morgan