Songs Quotes · Page 60

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire…

— Roger Waters

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

— Rodney Atkins

I love to play the songs that got me to where I am. I like to take a little bit from all…

— Mat Kearney

There are songs out there in the world which, in some ways, seem so unmusical.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Of course, we're very excited if our songs and albums do well, but that's not necessarily a goal that we set.

— Jin

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

— Mark Lanegan

I started out dabbling in rock and roll; then I did playback, and I have also sung for my own songs on…

— Shruti Haasan

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

— Robert Smith

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any…

— Dwight Yoakam

I missed the country sounds on the radio. I missed the Deana Carters and the old Faith Hill songs that are more…

— Jana Kramer

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time…

— Matthew Ramsey

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers…

— Jason Mraz

“..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of…

— Bob Dylan

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want…

— Billy Corgan

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a…

— Martina McBride

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually…

— Isaac Brock

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

I get many offers from Tamil films but I refuse to do them because I get offers to do item songs.

— Mandira Bedi

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent…

— Chrissie Hynde

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

— Greg Lake

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

— Bishop Briggs

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

— Jim Morrison

“The best song in the whole wide world is one that reminds us of something.”

— Abayomi Kayode Patrick

My first hits were behind the scenes, producing songs for Chipmunk and Wiley and working with Emeli Sande.

— Naughty Boy

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what…

— Tyler Farr

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

— Jules Shear

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

— Bruno Mars

Every time you hear an 808 drum machine beat on one of my songs, it comes from Freaknik.

— The-Dream

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

— Rachel Stevens

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of…

— Katy Evans

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into…

— Lenny Kravitz

I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.

— Jessie James Decker

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy.…

— Neil Armstrong

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went…

— Ozzy Osbourne

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

— Blaise Pascal

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of…

— Pete Seeger