Songs Quotes · Page 63

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

— Jesse Williams

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

— Glen Campbell

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

— Kim Carnes

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

Breathe me in, breathe me out The music's got me going Breathe me in, breathe me out No stop until the morning…

— Selena Gomez

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect.…

— Michael Buble

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition,…

— Kesha Rogers

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I've always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that…

— Andrae Crouch

The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s…

— Dave Gahan

I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously…

— Dev Hynes

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated…

— Tina Turner

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

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

— John Mayer

By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again.

— Stephen Schwartz

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every…

— Prince

I've learned that songs are perfect for you when you've written them, and then they're gonna connect with people, but, for you,…

— Lola Young

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

— Hunter Parrish

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts…

— Johnny Flynn

I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked…

— Linda Ronstadt

Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I…

— Ashton Irwin

The Carpenters songs had a lot of melody. And people have always liked a good melody.

— Richard Carpenter

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

— Colm Wilkinson

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are…

— J. Tillman

And if I die before I awake I pray to the lord my soul to take but please dont just know that…

— Kid Cudi

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

— Richard Marx

'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

— Tom Dumont

My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send…

— Seal

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

— Charles Koppelman

I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

— Astrid S

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't,…

— Johnny Ramone

We have songs like 'Holiday in My Head,' which has that 'All Star' vibe to it.

— Steve Harwell

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

— Benmont Tench

If our love is tragedy why are you my remedy? If our loves insanity why are you my clarity?

— Anonymous