Songs Quotes · Page 58

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it -…

— Lucy Dacus

Songs have a way of stealing into my mood and quenching my sadness and then leaving me with a terrible thirst for…

— Terry Mark

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

— Gary Allan

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for…

— Kailash Kher

If I had a label, everything would have been easier. But it wouldn't have been the same album, from the cover art…

— AJ Tracey

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the…

— Ben Folds

F.U.B.U.' is one of my favorite songs ever. It just like touches me - I almost like cry when I heard that…

— Amine

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

— Rick Astley

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means…

— Norah Jones

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever…

— Courtney Barnett

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my…

— D. Imman

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.…

— Autre Ne Veut

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know…

— Hillary Scott

Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and…

— Kerry Ellis

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt…

— Ray LaMontagne

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of…

— Dave Gahan

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

— Jens Lekman

I guess all that I can hope for is that my songs affect the younger versions of me out there.

— Aesop Rock

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego…

— Rick Springfield

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

— Grimes

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so…

— Juliana Hatfield

“A little sunshine, the song of birds, and a warm cup of coffee—these are the things that bring me peace.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Am I the only one that really hopes Drake will one day make a Degrassi reference in one of his songs?

— Anonymous

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

— Thomas Mars

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

— Nana Mouskouri

I have a lot of favorite songs. One of them is Lyle Lovett's version of 'If I Needed You.'

— Deborah K. Ross

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

— James Taylor

Since I was growing up, I liked love songs - Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the…

— Gregory Isaacs

The 'Voice Kids U.K.' songs were chosen for me, and I had to try and make them mine.

— Courtney Hadwin

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

— Leonard Cohen

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

— Cliff Martinez

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives…

— Nicole Scherzinger

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it

— Wyclef Jean

You dont care, oh just like me Dont go there, oh just like me You can do what I can do you…

— Tmills

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because…

— Ani DiFranco

“Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it.”

— Bernard Cornwell

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from…

— Brett Dennen

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those…

— Linda Perry

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

— Lauren Mayberry

I'm just writing songs to process what's going on, whether in my personal life or in my perception of the world.

— Olivia Rodrigo