Songs Quotes · Page 56

There's no formula for choosing songs. I've beeen lucky over the years. You just hear it and you do it.

— Anne Murray

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

— Valerie June

All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing.

— Arlo Parks

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

— Siobhan Fahey

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

— Matt Berninger

Songs like 'I Believe In You' are why I tend to gravitate towards being so laid back.

— Uncle Kracker

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

But I love listening to my own songs and I know they're working well if I'm not thinking too much about them…

— Michelle Zauner

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song…

— Pete Seeger

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

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that…

— Ella Henderson

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

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

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

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

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly…

— Pete Seeger

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

— Amy Winehouse

They say that love is forever, your forever is all that I need. - Sleeping With Sirens

— Amanda

I met Dylan on 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.' We buddied around for quite a while after that. We jammed together;…

— Harry Dean Stanton

There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.

— David Berman

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off…

— Stephen Malkmus

People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.

— Girl Talk

Swing your partner round and round End of the night, it's going down One more shot, another round

— Pitbull

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

— Pat Pattison

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

— Jeff Mangum

“At the least, we should leave flowers, at the least we should leave songs.”

— Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

— Spike Jonze

“All that I am All that I ever was Is here in your perfect eyes,they're all I can see. Most songs tell…

— Anomie K. Hatcher

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.

— Charlie Fink

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

— Gwen Stefani

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

— Pierce Brosnan

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs…

— Floriana Lima

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

— Trace Adkins

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear The Stranger. You May Be Right may be one of the greatest…

— Adam Pally

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life…

— Layne Staley

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

— Sebastian Bach

“We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

— David Crosby

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

— Gulzar