Songs Quotes · Page 78

If you pay more attention to the words of her favorite songs, you'll find out everything she's too afraid to say.

— Anonymous

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

— Donovan

I've only recorded my own songs. I don't consider myself a great singer, so I wouldn't be comfortable interpreting other people's songs.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

Just seeing people appreciate what you do, come out and support it, and sing the songs back, there's not a better feeling…

— Kip Moore

Sometimes I want to hear something fun to cook or bake to; other times, I need specific songs to to lift me…

— Orianthi

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what…

— Tyler Joseph

That's what our songs are, I suppose - visions and little bits of life that somehow get made into music.

— Ellie Rowsell

Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs.

— Synyster Gates

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I…

— Thia Megia

Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the…

— Hank Williams III

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really…

— Louis Tomlinson

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music…

— Kacey Musgraves

Im addicted to the games that you play You make me feel so pitiful Like youre so beautiful Your heart is beating…

— James

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are…

— Shawn Mendes

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of…

— Chris de Burgh

I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I…

— Demetria McKinney

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in…

— Charles Duhigg

A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't…

— Robbie Robertson

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs…

— Will Chase

I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes…

— Grimes

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

— David Friedman

I'm not really a great lover of remixes and remakes. of course, it's a principle of mine that I don't remake songs.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

— Fiona Apple

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years,…

— Conor Oberst

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon

IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times.

— Timothy Simons

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

— Rick Nielsen

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They…

— Charles Stuart Calverley

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say…

— Van Morrison

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

— PJ Harvey

Sometimes I like the songs I write and sometimes I wanna shoot them in the face.

— Bruno Mars

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

— Rayvon Owen

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I went to lovely public schools with gardens and arts programs, and we sang…

— Monica Barbaro

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

— John Britt Daniel

One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented…

— Tig Notaro

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where…

— Ben Gibbard

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

— PJ Harvey

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

— Tim Minchin

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

— Steve Porcaro

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make…

— Birdy