Songs Quotes · Page 59

It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be.

— Trentemøller

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

— Peter Steele

I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes.

— Mira Sorvino

A band is a real band if they can play not just their songs, but they can just play.

— Shavo Odadjian

The older songs were better songs, because they had lyrics with a story to tell. Aretha and Otis told stories.

— Wilson Pickett

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

— John Denver

I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big…

— Lecrae

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad…

— Elliott Smith

Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went…

— Granger Smith

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out…

— Willie Nelson

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love…

— Diana Krall

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing…

— Roger McGuinn

A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very…

— Louis Tomlinson

“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last…

— Neil Gaiman

You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the…

— Dave Gahan

Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's…

— Mat Kearney

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on…

— Ginuwine

“My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will…

— Emme Rollins

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

— Fred Schneider

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

— Brandon Flowers

I started singing when I was 8, and then when I was 11, I started writing my first songs.

— Jorja Smith

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

— Mannie Fresh

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

— Bob Weir

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the…

— Eminem

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that…

— David Friedman

My hope is that my songs make you think about yourself, in your own life, and not really about me.

— JP Saxe

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

— Rob Halford

One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

— Kevin Gates

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you…

— Yann Tiersen

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in…

— Amanda Shires

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

— George Strait

I am so happy to be able to do what I love. To have the songs I've written for other artists go…

— Cole Swindell

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.

— Chris Cornell

I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good…

— Ezra Furman

I've bought DBSK's CD and every time I listen to their songs I feel very good.

— Seungri

We come up with slogans on the road and then we start putting them on the songs.

— apl.de.ap

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up…

— Bob Dylan

My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

— Neil Sedaka

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am…

— Navi Rawat