Songs Quotes · Page 62

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

— Sarah McLachlan

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a…

— Ingrid Michaelson

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

— Joey Santiago

I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.

— Dan Reynolds

California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same.

— Led Zeppelin

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

— Ronnie Spector

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

— Burning Spear

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live…

— Tom Petty

The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album,…

— Rick DeJesus

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the…

— Deana Carter

I had a kind of artrock band called Peanut for a while, which eventually helped me over my fear of singing. That…

— Withered Hand

I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but…

— Lainie Kazan

I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs…

— Nick Cave

We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became…

— Ed Kowalczyk

It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.

— Lewis Capaldi

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

— Sinead O'Connor

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

— Guru Randhawa

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't…

— Hans Zimmer

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

— St. Lucia

When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

— Skepta

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six…

— Katharine McPhee

I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.

— Armaan Malik

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

— T-Pain

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all…

— Theodore Bikel

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

— Amy Lee

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs…

— Taylor Hawkins

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

— Jillian Hervey

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

— Colin Hay

One of my favorite songs is by Mavado. The song is called "Progress." It's something that I work out to every day.…

— DJ Khaled

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had…

— Mandy Moore

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

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

— apl.de.ap

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

— Seungri

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

— Neil Sedaka

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

— Bob Dylan