Songs Quotes · Page 69

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of…

— Donovan

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

— Don Gibson

When someone yells stop; I don't know if it's in the name of love, it's hammer time, or if I should collaborate…

— Anonymous

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

— Matt Squire

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

— Dan Mangan

“It’s one of those songs— like Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven”— that everyone knows all the words to without ever having chosen…

— Mindy Kaling

Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that.

— Rayvon Owen

“We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league.”

— Relient K

The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies.…

— David Berman

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would…

— Wallace Shawn

A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for…

— Damon Albarn

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I…

— Diane Warren

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years,…

— Philip Selway

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something…

— Paolo Nutini

“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the…

— Laura Adams Armer

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like…

— Gary Allan

There are different shades to all of us and at different points in our lives, we like different songs.

— KK

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

— Miranda Lambert

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

— Dolly Parton

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

— David Longstreth

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I love Christmas songs and have always wanted to put one out, but never really had the opportunity.

— Sam Ryder

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with…

— Sabrina Carpenter

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

— Charlie Day

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to…

— Taylor Goldsmith

'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs.

— Rza

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

— Miranda Cosgrove

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

— Brian May

When life gives you a Bad Romance, show everyone your Poker Face, buy a new Telephone, call Alejandro, and you guys Just…

— Anonymous

I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.

— Lizz Wright

Im eating a Chop Suey dish and hanging with a very teen smelling friend. And for some reason, I have this strange…

— Ignas Kardas

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to…

— Diana Krall

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set…

— Gotye

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.

— Shawn Mendes

I've probably cried with a lot of songs - in teenage crushes, adult crushes.

— Aretha Franklin

Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.

— Donovan

There's always a certain line in a song that will always stuck in your mind because it reminds you of a place,…

— Anonymous

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael…

— Matisyahu

All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.

— Lee Tae-min