Songs Quotes · Page 75

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

— Jock Stein

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

— Asha Bhosle

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

— Sam Smith

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

— Steve Pink

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

— Michael Hutchence

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

— Travis Barker

Some songs are sort of born in the studio but some songs are really half-written in the studio.

— Ron Mael

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain…

— Ginuwine

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the…

— Leonard Cohen

I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love…

— Chelsea Leyland

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears…

— Gene Pitney

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I…

— Marc Almond

“I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too…

— Leila Sales

Y'all should be happy for me. It's funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn't even that big, but I'm still getting…

— Saweetie

I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for…

— Sebastian Bach

“Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with…

— Shannon L. Alder

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

— Martina Sorbara

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are…

— Josh Groban

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

— Marcel Wanders

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”

— Yip Harburg

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it…

— Fiona Apple

I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again,…

— Katie Stelmanis

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country…

— Blake Shelton

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

— Becky G

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of…

— Robert James Waller

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

— Brenda Lee

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.

— Jacob Collier

I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all…

— Dan Smith

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

— Amish Tripathi

And these break up songs Are making sense again, And I really wish they didn't.

— Anonymous

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need,…

— Doug Martsch

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough…

— Lucinda Williams

I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already…

— Shaggy

It's 4 in the morning, and she's calling my phone!!!! Lolz, gotta love Gucci...

— Cassidy Saddoris

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own…

— Ben Harper

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was…

— Reba McEntire

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of…

— Iris DeMent