Songs Quotes · Page 57

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

— Paul Simon

“I close my eyes, letting the calm wash over me, and putting my bow against the cello's strings, I play.”

— Samantha Armstrong

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

— Justin Vernon

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

— Victoria Justice

I don't just sing the song, I also sing the background music and the guitar solo.

— Anonymous

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

— Tom Odell

There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed…

— Bethany Cosentino

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there…

— Earl Sweatshirt

“Abba songs, as anyone who knows knows, are constructed, technically and harmonically, so as to physically imprint the human brain as if…

— Ali Smith

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee…

— Chris Isaak

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk…

— Andrae Crouch

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind…

— Mickey Hart

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the…

— Dave Grohl

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically.…

— Charli XCX

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the…

— Anonymous

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art…

— Steve Grand

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all…

— Dierks Bentley

I never thought of any of our songs as 'hits,' so to speak - we just wrote them for us.

— Matty Healy

“there are songs I used to love that now I absolutely refuse to listen to, they trigger memories and feelings i don't…

— Colleen Hoover

For the majority of the time, the songs I like, other people seem to like, so that's good.

— Stefflon Don

I decided to take up 'Shaapit' because Vikram agreed to make me sing all the songs.

— Aditya Narayan

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

— Van Morrison

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

— Steven Van Zandt

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put…

— Jon Foreman

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

— Taylor Swift

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

— J. Cole

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

— Olly Alexander

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

— Leah LaBelle

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs…

— Lauryn Hill

Bangalore Days' is a complete entertainer that is a completely different a genre from 'Ustad Hotel,' and the songs are just that…

— Gopi Sundar

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

— Freya Ridings

Other artists, they write 13 songs, and hopefully one or two of them are successful singles. And the other 11, for the…

— Michael Buble

Yeah, I spent a year in Thailand back in 2015-2016, and I wrote, like, 40 songs.

— Dennis Lloyd

I have sung all kinds of songs - be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.

— Javed Ali

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched…

— Rodney Atkins

It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of…

— Bryan Ferry

When I listen to songs, to this day, I listen to the chords and the groove and the melody.

— Michael McDonald

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

— Nick Cave

I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.

— Dua Lipa

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

— Bono