Songs Quotes · Page 13

'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner…

— Caitlin Rose

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

— Nolan Sotillo

They dont know about the things we do, they dont know about the I love yous, but I betcha if they only…

— One Direction

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I…

— Maren Morris

“It's the latest popular song," declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice. "A popular song?" "Yes. One that the…

— L. Frank Baum

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

— Julien Baker

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going…

— Mary Gauthier

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

— Amanda Palmer

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman

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

When there are people crying in the streets, When they're starving for a meal to eat, When they simply need a place…

— 3 Doors Down

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story...…

— Grey DeLisle

Malaysian Tamil movies are amateurish, with songs picked up from our old Tamil movies and inserted in between.

— Radha Ravi

Songs definitely add to the excitement about a movie.

— Sriram Raghavan

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we…

— Bode Miller

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

— Mika

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get…

— Phil Lesh

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

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

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to…

— Diana Krall

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

— Leah LaBelle

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

— Smokey Robinson

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

— Vicente Fernandez

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

— Darius Rucker

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon