Songs Quotes · Page 70

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

— Dave Keuning

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

— Gloria Gaynor

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

— Chuck Berry

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

— Paul Gilbert

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

— Elvis Costello

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine…

— John Prine

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half…

— King Tuff

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because…

— Anonymous

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific…

— Barry Mann

I gave myself a year to write as many songs as I could, and then I made a shortlist of about 10,…

— G Flip

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to…

— Spike Jonze

I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was…

— Iggy Azalea

Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant…

— Mike Love

I really didn't like the songs that were being offered to me. There was no melody and no meaning to them. That's…

— Kumar Sanu

Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the…

— Jubin Nautiyal

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

— Graham Nash

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

— Matt Skiba

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

There's a time that you realize that you're not gonna get out of a room without playing certain songs.

— Billy Squier

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

— Mac DeMarco

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to…

— Skylar Grey

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

— James Blunt

I don't feel that I have achieved anything, I just want people to love my songs.

— Javed Ali

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches…

— Trace Cyrus

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

— Matt Tong

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter…

— Jake Owen

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

— Jarvis Cocker

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

— Toni Braxton

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

— Kristin Hersh

A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

— Sam Hunt

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

— Justin Hayward

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

— Jens Lekman

I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them…

— Adam Granduciel

Sometimes I hate this songs because they bring the past when you we tried hard to forget those memories.

— Sushan R Sharma

Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.

— Keith Sweat

When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records…

— Randy Houser

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to…

— Bruno Mars