Songs Quotes · Page 54

When you open for a band, you don't play one of their songs. You just don't do that.

— Shavo Odadjian

I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.

— Romy Madley Croft

A song can be as powerful as a time machine. It brings you back to a certain time and place, with a…

— Bernajoy Vaal

For years I never had the courage to bring my written songs out. I had so many unreleased English songs.

— Neha Bhasin

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.

— Polo G

My father, Kali Gannguli, is an arranger, composer and accordion player who has worked with Salilda whose songs I had grown up…

— Jeet Gannguli

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.

— Paolo Nutini

I just feel like there's a lot of great R&B songs out there with nobody to sing them.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me.…

— Harlan Howard

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

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

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the…

— Edie Brickell

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

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

You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that…

— Shane Filan

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

“These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.”

— Hannah Harrington

For me, my songs have to be catchy and upbeat. I want songs that get stuck in people's heads for hours.

— Scheana Shay

There was a time when I had spiky hair and I was doing Indian-influenced R&B fusion songs.

— Jay Sean

I was going to try writing but it was always just songs. It never quite worked, but I have got a book…

— Motorhead

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day…

— Jarvis Cocker

I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.

— Gylve Nagell

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial…

— James Maslow

I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.

— Maggie Rogers

People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

— Sam Smith

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

— Ryan Tedder

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot…

— John Fogerty

Some want to do pretty songs with pretty words about pretty people, but that ain't me.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I just do the cream-of-the-crop songs in my show. We just bowl them over; they love us. It just keeps getting better.

— Gordon Lightfoot

There are songs that make you sad when you hear them. But it aren't the songs that make you sad, it are…

— Anonymous

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

— Andy Gibb

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

“You are a song I could listen to over and over again although I'm convinced it had played in my head a…

— Nicola An

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.

— Gregory Isaacs

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to…

— Chris de Burgh

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

— Adam Granduciel

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

— Myles Kennedy

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

— Mick Jagger

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know,…

— Terence Winter