Songs Quotes · Page 66

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

— Jimmy Webb

Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the…

— Jubin Nautiyal

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine…

— John Prine

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

— Graham Nash

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

— Matt Skiba

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

— Mac DeMarco

There's a time that you realize that you're not gonna get out of a room without playing certain songs.

— Billy Squier

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to,…

— Vince Gill

With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs.…

— Nuno Bettencourt

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation…

— Brian Wilson

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple…

— Anonymous

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots…

— Zendaya

At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me…

— Jools Holland

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on…

— Jon Crosby

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and…

— Anonymous

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches…

— Trace Cyrus

I don't feel that I have achieved anything, I just want people to love my songs.

— Javed Ali

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

— Matt Tong

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

— James Blunt

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to…

— Skylar Grey

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

I wanna make more songs than anybody, I wanna be the oldest rapper who is active.

— Too Short

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

— Gloria Gaynor

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

— Dave Keuning

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

— Paul Gilbert

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

— Chuck Berry

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

— Elvis Costello

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

— Shaun Fleming

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

— T-Pain

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

— Bryan Adams

“The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.”

— Neil Gaiman

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Songs that people think are about my life are actually not about my life at all, and in fact are about friends…

— Maisie Peters

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

— Mike Will Made It

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not…

— Chris Cornell

Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a…

— Mark Foster