I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs…

I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic…

— Donovan

I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.

— Jeff Buckley

My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.

— Natalie Prass

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming…

— David Archuleta

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I…

— Jade Bird

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now.…

— Alison Krauss

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out…

— David Longstreth

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only…

— Adam Duritz

There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I…

— Lata Mangeshkar

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

— Judy Collins

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

— Kyle Gass

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

— Bob Dylan

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

— Frank Zappa

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

— Gregg Allman