Songs Quotes · Page 53

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

— Laurent Brancowitz

Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of…

— Carrie Brownstein

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

— Adam Jones

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few…

— Marianne Faithfull

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be…

— Meghan Trainor

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows - they're not about me.

— Madison Beer

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

— Carly Simon

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

I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing…

— Ray Stevens

For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and…

— Jon Foreman

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

To me, racism is so played out and corny and stupid, especially in music, where you now have Nelly doing songs with…

— Clinton Sparks

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

“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

“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common…

— Bob Dylan

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

— P. J. Soles

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs…

— Kenny Rogers

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

— Jonathan McReynolds

My songs are my girlfriends. I have a secret romance with all of them. I romance with them year after year.

— Adnan Sami

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,

— Townes Van Zandt

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in…

— Mark Lanegan

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.

— Priscilla Ahn

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

— Michael Stipe

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

— Leif Garrett

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

— Chris Brown

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

— Andrew Greeley

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

— Rob Sheffield

I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect.

— Girl Talk

I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new…

— Sasha Velour

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

— Lou Gramm

You can just put songs out and see what happens. I think that is really important to do.

— Lola Young

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

— Ian Brown

I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and…

— Diane Warren

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

— Kevin Parker

I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.

— Polo G

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it…

— Bruce Springsteen

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

— Borns