Songs Quotes · Page 32

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I…

— John Oates

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

— Jim James

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

— Tim Minchin

I guess all that I can hope for is that my songs affect the younger versions of me out there.

— Aesop Rock

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing…

— Tom Lehrer

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had…

— Gene Ween

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For…

— Duff McKagan

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in…

— Bonnie Raitt

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

— John Otto

I write love songs!

— Kris Allen

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

— Neha Kakkar

There's been times that I did songs with people and they didn't put me on their album, I just respect their vision.

— Nav

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

— Ryan Adams

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly…

— Kylie Minogue

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make…

— Mac DeMarco

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what…

— Diane Warren

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

— Liz Phair

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine…

— Stephen Stills

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

— Desmond Dekker

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that…

— Angel Olsen

I still play the songs I declared noncanonical.

— Porter Robinson

People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.

— Olly Murs

My songs are classics.

— Jorja Smith