Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song'… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin',… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song… — Khalil Copy Share Image
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, you can't throw heavy, analytical, thought-provoking songs at people 24/7. It's been my experience over the last 20 years that on… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work.… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England. — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Your songs are still out there on the clifftop, hanging in the air for you when you want them. Wish to speak… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs. — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
LORD WE COME YOU ASKING you for the strength and the guidance to be man enough to protect our children till the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD. — Young Thug Copy Share Image
