Songs Quotes · Page 79

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

— Lauren Alaina

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

— Kris Kristofferson

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.

— Jimmy Iovine

My songs are pop songs, they're rock songs. They're not way out there. You can tap your feet to them, you can…

— Peaches

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain…

— Kool Keith

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

— Nina Nesbitt

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or…

— Rob Sheffield

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you…

— Del Shannon

I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the…

— Mark Salling

I was playing a lot of Coldplay before the world knew who I was, before anybody knew my 'Umbrella' song. Those songs…

— The-Dream

I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I…

— Dickey Betts

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set…

— Ed Sheeran

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I…

— Diana Ross

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like…

— Mike Dirnt

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself…

— Tom Rush

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

— Jackie Evancho

People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able…

— John Legend

Simplicity is the key for me. I can't write clever songs; I just can't do it.

— Kate Nash

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album…

— Bo Bice

Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.

— Jack Black

One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.

— Darius Rucker

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

— Amanda Palmer

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

— Gregory Porter

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make…

— Birdy

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

— Jimmy Webb

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

— Tim Minchin

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where…

— Ben Gibbard

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

— PJ Harvey

One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented…

— Tig Notaro

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I went to lovely public schools with gardens and arts programs, and we sang…

— Monica Barbaro

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

— John Britt Daniel

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

— Rayvon Owen

Sometimes I like the songs I write and sometimes I wanna shoot them in the face.

— Bruno Mars

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

— PJ Harvey

Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance…

— Sigrid

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks You better run, better run, outrun my bazooka!

— Milana May

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd…

— Taylor Swift