Songs Quotes · Page 77

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

— George Lloyd

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

— Marc Almond

It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them.

— Ruston Kelly

No matter where I go, I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was…

— Shreya Ghoshal

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

— Billy Joel

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

— Leonard Cohen

“88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to…

— Luke Bryan

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on,…

— Scott Ian

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to…

— Patrick Stump

Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a…

— Rick Moranis

A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote…

— Bibi Bourelly

Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never…

— R. Kelly

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And…

— James Taylor

It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three…

— Justin Vernon

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

— Miranda Lambert

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

— Lars Ulrich

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem…

— Liam Gallagher

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship…

— Bo Sanchez

I do not have a problem with remixes but original songs are not being included in an album, this is sad.

— Amaal Mallik

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in…

— Maya Rudolph

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with…

— Anita Baker

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.

— Madonna Ciccone

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

— Shura

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those…

— Blake Shelton

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

— Owen Pallett

Bands like U2 have songs which are almost completely different genres, and that's what I love.

— Calum Hood

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

— Nuno Bettencourt

Most of the songs that I write have nothing to do with the stuff that I used to sing about since I…

— Tevin Campbell

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out and connect with you. Great…

— Mat Kearney

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

— Ziggy Marley

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would…

— Norah Jones

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

— Ellie Goulding

Well, I love Take That but l've always been partial to Robbie Williams' songs.

— Ayda Field

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs…

— Jane Krakowski

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

— Freddie Gibbs

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

— Guy Sebastian

Some people in your life are like those songs in your playlist that you always skip but can never delete!

— Anonymous