Songs Quotes · Page 58

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

— Javed Ali

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

— David Archuleta

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of…

— Arlo Guthrie

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I…

— Tracy Chapman

I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements…

— Rosalia

I'm a huge fan of Paolo Nutini, I'm so in love with his songs and his voice.

— Tom Walker

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

Songs are like children. They are all special to me - you can't just pick a favorite. Of course, 'Lucky Man' was…

— Greg Lake

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

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

— Daniel Rossen

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

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this…

— Judy Collins

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of…

— Machine Gun Kelly

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

— Mickey Gilley

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got…

— John Waite

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

— Jesse Williams

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

— Raheem DeVaughn

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

— Glen Campbell

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

— Kim Carnes

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

— Mike Love

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

— Deborah Cox

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

— Elton John

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

— Taylor Swift

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not…

— Randy Newman

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range,…

— Arlo Guthrie

By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again.

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

— John Mayer

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

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

— Ray Stevens

Malaysian Tamil movies are amateurish, with songs picked up from our old Tamil movies and inserted in between.

— Radha Ravi