My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
“Abba songs, as anyone who knows knows, are constructed, technically and harmonically, so as to physically imprint the human brain as if… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to… — Corbin Bleu Copy Share Image
My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical,… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the… — John Hall Copy Share Image
“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me.… — Harlan Howard Copy Share Image
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To me, racism is so played out and corny and stupid, especially in music, where you now have Nelly doing songs with… — Clinton Sparks Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night… — Dan Hawkins Copy Share Image
For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening… — Jacques Villeneuve Copy Share Image
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
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