Songs Quotes · Page 64

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

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like…

— Gary Allan

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You…

— Jim Varney

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live…

— Freddie Mercury

Everybody dreams about writing one of those songs. I've had a lot of songs I'm proud of. A lot of them. But…

— Everlast

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important…

— Aurora

The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like…

— Stone Gossard

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down…

— Bonnie Tyler

Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show…

— Jason Aldean

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

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

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

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

— Rosalia

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

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