Songs Quotes · Page 68

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

— Tom Walker

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

— Mickey Gilley

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

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

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I…

— Jon Secada

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of…

— Lykke Li

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine…

— Stephen Stills

You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good…

— Stephen Malkmus

Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take…

— Gary Jules

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone…

— Scott Patterson

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little…

— Lucinda Williams

Buddy Holly' by Weezer is one of my fav ever songs, which I think is pretty unexpected? 'Good Luck' by Basment Jaxx…

— Maisie Peters

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

— Elton John

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

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

— Stephen Schwartz

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

— John Mayer

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

— Mike Love

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

— Deborah Cox

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

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Hunter Parrish

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

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

— Prince

'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

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

— Colm Wilkinson

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

— Richard Carpenter

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

— Richard Marx

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

— Kid Cudi

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

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

— Anonymous

L I f e is not an I p o d to listen your favorite songs .its a r a d I…

— S