Songs Quotes · Page 55

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

— Brian Fallon

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were…

— Travie McCoy

I do have certain people whom I want to work with. The kind of people I want to work with won't cast…

— Nushrat Bharucha

I don't know why, but you didn't hear a lot of sad, depressing, ballad-y stuff coming out of the '70s. It was…

— Uncle Kracker

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

— Victoria Justice

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

— Elizabeth Fraser

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

— Leonard Cohen

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

— Dee Snider

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It…

— Norah Jones

Y'all should be happy for me. It's funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn't even that big, but I'm still getting…

— Saweetie

“I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too…

— Leila Sales

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I…

— Marc Almond

In the past, I had this open-door policy where everyone was invited. And that was awesome, but you end up releasing songs…

— Devendra Banhart

“Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with…

— Shannon L. Alder

I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for…

— Sebastian Bach

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the…

— Leonard Cohen

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20…

— Nick Lowe

It is hard to sometimes get on a song because for example: I've only got on songs with beasts like Crooked I…

— Snow Tha Product

After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films.

— Mahira Khan

I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

— Bebe Rexha

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they…

— PJ Harvey

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I…

— Billie Eilish

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

— Greyson Chance

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

— William Beckett

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

— Chris Cornell

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

— Tracy Chapman

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

— Lou Gramm

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the…

— Neko Case

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

— Desmond Dekker

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.

— Seymour Stein

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

— Johnny Mathis

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

— Lemmy

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one…

— Michael Bolton

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

— Ryan Tedder

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

— Jadakiss

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a…

— Kathy Bates

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute…

— Steve Jobs

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

— Christine McVie

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

— Celine Dion