Songs Quotes · Page 63

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

— Richard Marx

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

— Cam'ron

I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to…

— Chesney Hawkes

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

— Lester Bowie

People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've…

— Kate Bush

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

— Jakob Dylan

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the…

— Hilary Duff

There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect…

— Maddie Marlow

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something…

— Paolo Nutini

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I…

— Diane Warren

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years,…

— Philip Selway

A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for…

— Damon Albarn

The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies.…

— David Berman

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would…

— Wallace Shawn

“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the…

— Laura Adams Armer

As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I…

— Michael Tolcher

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 was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

— Curtis Mayfield

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

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

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music…

— Yolanda Adams

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

— Taylor Momsen

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of…

— Chesney Hawkes

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

— Kim Carnes

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

— Glen Campbell

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

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

— Tom Walker

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

— Laura Marling

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