Songs Quotes · Page 30

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

— St. Lucia

I can't take credit for the success of my songs.

— Mohit Chauhan

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

— Ryan Adams

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

— KT Tunstall

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

— Jhene Aiko

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

I love '90s and '00s R&B, and those songs go on for ever.

— MNEK

I've done gospel songs on every album.

— DMX

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

— Yael Naim

I lived a lot of those songs, I lived 'Time to Creep,' I lived 'Love You Bad.'

— Mark Morrison

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones -…

— Rick Nielsen

It's always the theme that defines the songs and background score of any film.

— Devi Sri Prasad

We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.

— Benji Madden

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of…

— Arlo Guthrie

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I…

— Tracy Chapman

I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements…

— Rosalia

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter…

— June Carter Cash

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you…

— Ben Gibbard

You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you…

— Jake Shimabukuro

Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters…

— William Clark Green

A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s,…

— Maxwell

I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and…

— Cassie Steele

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then…

— Win Butler

“There are some songs in your playlist which u don't want to listen and don't want to delete either …same is the…

— self

Every song has a story.. so that means every person has a song to sing

— Mandi

I'd love it if one of my songs became a hit.

— Aesop Rock

I still play the songs I declared noncanonical.

— Porter Robinson

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

— Lil Uzi Vert

“Lose your dream, you lose your mind.”

— The Rolling Stones

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

— Jake Bugg

Frankly, all the songs from 'Fiza' that made news were mine.

— Anu Malik

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

— Warren Zevon

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

— Talib Kweli

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

— Sarah McLachlan

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

— Willie Nelson

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

— Hannah Simone

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

— Lily Allen

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

I feel there is no harm in recreating songs.

— Randhir Kapoor