Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take… — Gary Jules Copy Share Image
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
Buddy Holly' by Weezer is one of my fav ever songs, which I think is pretty unexpected? 'Good Luck' by Basment Jaxx… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
“Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here From somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye… — Nena Copy Share Image
It's really cathartic to play my songs live. I'm a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant.… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"… — Aaron Watson Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that… — Chuck Comeau Copy Share Image
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy… — Michael Wadleigh Copy Share Image
Some of the Junior Boys' textures may be borrowed from synthpop but, formally, their songs would be impossible without twenty years of… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
