Songs Quotes · Page 62

“I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.”

— Ricardo Arjona

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger…

— John Entwistle

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to…

— Mat Kearney

I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and…

— Borns

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by…

— Jason Pierce

Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head

— Robert Fulton Abernethy

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The…

— Rihanna

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that…

— Zooey Deschanel

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come…

— Matt Redman

All of my songs are trial-and-error until each part is successfully hitting me in the way that I can feel. But I…

— Alex G

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of…

— Boz Scaggs

I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The…

— Yael Naim

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that…

— Bryan Hayes

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't…

— Jeff Tweedy

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to…

— Evan Dando

The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I…

— Jose James

I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

— Curtis Mayfield

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

— Ray Stevens

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Radha Ravi

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music…

— Yolanda Adams

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of…

— Chesney Hawkes

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

— Taylor Momsen

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

— Cam'ron

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

— Richard Marx

I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to…

— Chesney Hawkes

People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've…

— Kate Bush

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

— Lester Bowie

As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I…

— Michael Tolcher

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the…

— Hilary Duff

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

— Jakob Dylan

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of…

— Machine Gun Kelly

I'm a huge fan of Paolo Nutini, I'm so in love with his songs and his voice.

— Tom Walker

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this…

— Judy Collins

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

— Mickey Gilley

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got…

— John Waite

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

— Raheem DeVaughn