Songs Quotes · Page 74

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be…

— Michael Franti

When critics say we're no good, it's just the cool thing to do. I'm happy with the songs I write.

— Jani Lane

There are only couple songs that you can just hear and it'll put you in a great mood.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

— Juan Gabriel

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they…

— Richard Ashcroft

I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

— Ian McLagan

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

— Rufus Wainwright

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do…

— Sharon Jones

For me, I'm more a fan of the songs than of the artists because often, it's not worth getting the whole album.…

— Dr. Luke

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song…

— Benji Hughes

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to…

— Jay DeMarcus

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I…

— Rufus Wainwright

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at…

— Bronson Arroyo

Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of…

— Joe Perry

In the past, I had this open-door policy where everyone was invited. And that was awesome, but you end up releasing songs…

— Devendra Banhart

I love hearing old songs I used to love. Theyre like memories you can always go back to.

— Anonymous

I write songs, and there is a definite need to express myself through my music.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

— Jay DeMarcus

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

— Ginuwine

What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.

— Mitski

“Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't want to be depress but why am I still listening to these brokenhearted songs? I guess they were written for…

— Rakii Retondo

Every time I lay down and jamm to those songs I used to hear when I was with you..i swear it brings…

— L P J

That awkward moment when you try to explain a song but dont want to sing it.

— Anonymous

I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we…

— Rodney Crowell

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I…

— Tom Odell

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

— Sia

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of…

— Iris DeMent

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was…

— Reba McEntire

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own…

— Ben Harper

It's 4 in the morning, and she's calling my phone!!!! Lolz, gotta love Gucci...

— Cassidy Saddoris

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough…

— Lucinda Williams

I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already…

— Shaggy

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need,…

— Doug Martsch

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

— Amish Tripathi

And these break up songs Are making sense again, And I really wish they didn't.

— Anonymous

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco