Songs Quotes · Page 54

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

— Don Gibson

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one…

— Jacob Artist

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

— Jack Antonoff

You don't have to work with everybody and be on songs with everybody just to make it.

— Rich the Kid

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

— Ryan Hurd

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of…

— Grace Jones

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

— Sharon Van Etten

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with…

— Ian McLagan

I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now…

— Adam Granduciel

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance…

— Illinois Jacquet

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well…

— Otis Redding

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really…

— Louis Tomlinson

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful.…

— Karan Johar

I tried to be in loads of bands and it hadn't really worked out. My friends weren't as into it as I…

— Declan McKenna

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes…

— Brian McKnight

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

— Andy Gibb

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

— Leona Lewis

You have certain songs that bands make that just don't go away. We were blessed with that, and it was 'All Star.'

— Steve Harwell

You learn alot about people when you listen to the songs that mean something to them

— Anonymous

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.

— Kris Kristofferson

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

— Vince Clarke

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

— Borns

It's very important to me to stay true to who I am as a musician and the songs that I love.

— Vidya Vox

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be…

— King Khan

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

— Smokey Robinson

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the…

— Fred Hammond

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from…

— Denny Laine

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

— Kristin Chenoweth

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with…

— Kaki King

All the songs I've written, if they don't sound good on acoustic guitar, they won't sound good at 11.

— John Waite

I've written some really good songs that I love hungover because I wasn't overthinking it.

— Maren Morris

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

— Kim Carnes

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

— Glen Campbell

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

— Deborah Cox

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

— Mike Love

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range,…

— Arlo Guthrie

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

— Elton John

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not…

— Randy Newman

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

— Taylor Swift