Songs Quotes · Page 71

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

— Nick Cave

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued…

— Neil Young

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as…

— Taylor Swift

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

— Joss Stone

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

— Kelly Jones

I want to only sing songs that I have lived with; that can't happen with six tracks at the same time.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something…

— Matt Thiessen

“Songs are just novels that get to the point quicker. Though I don't imagine that Ke$ha's book would be clean YA...”

— Inda Herwood

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together…

— Randy Bachman

I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I…

— Courtney Barnett

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and…

— Shakira

I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they…

— Eve

“One day that song stopped being on the outside of me and went deep inside. It was there all the time, especially…

— Susan Crandall

I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm…

— Jason Isbell

It is amazing when you try and write songs without an instrument. It kind of forces the melody to be honed it.…

— Graham Colton

Take my arm, take my head Make your mark like a man Write your name, gonna write your name Hurts so good,…

— Selena Gomez

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

— Snoh Aalegra

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

— Terri Clark

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

— William Fitzsimmons

I've been writing songs since I was a kid. You just hope that you get better.

— Michael Penn

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any…

— Ben Lovett

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

— Kyle Gass

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.

— Bibi Bourelly

Don't try to be something you're not, and find some great songs because there is still an interest.

— Porter Wagoner

Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.

— Mick Hucknall

A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well…

— OMI

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.

— Lindi Ortega

We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as…

— Shane McAnally

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

— Jens Lekman

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

— Carmen Cusack

I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.

— Kate Brown

“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

— Jackie DeShannon

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never…

— Amy Winehouse

My mom is floored! She's so proud. I always wanted to do a channel that incorporates songs for younger kids.

— GloZell

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

— Nina Nesbitt

I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations…

— Adam Granduciel

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

— Dionne Warwick

'Rangeela' and 'Daud' are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances - they all blend so well.

— Urmila Matondkar