Songs Quotes · Page 68

I would feel weird if I wasn't able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always…

— Estelle

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.

— Chris Cornell

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

“You are a song I could listen to over and over again although I'm convinced it had played in my head a…

— Nicola An

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.

— Gregory Isaacs

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to…

— Chris de Burgh

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down…

— Al Yankovic

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because…

— Gary Numan

Lots of the time when I do find that real bond from a male audience I've noticed a lot of it is…

— Jack Savoretti

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became…

— Jimmy Griffin

I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can…

— Alex Ebert

Personally, the songs that I've written, when they arrive to the Café Tacvba group , they become something more. Some begin to…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has…

— Alber Elbaz

Usually we're all comfortable playing the songs, but during the song there might be one part where you're like „oh, this part's…

— John Petrucci

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

— Adam Granduciel

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

— Myles Kennedy

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

— Mick Jagger

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know,…

— Terence Winter

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

— Richie Havens

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different…

— The Weeknd

“I love you too," I say. No wonder the whole world writes songs about those words.”

— Cath Crowley

There was a time when I had spiky hair and I was doing Indian-influenced R&B fusion songs.

— Jay Sean

I was going to try writing but it was always just songs. It never quite worked, but I have got a book…

— Motorhead

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day…

— Jarvis Cocker

I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.

— Gylve Nagell

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial…

— James Maslow

I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.

— Maggie Rogers

People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

— Sam Smith

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

— Ryan Tedder

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot…

— John Fogerty

Some want to do pretty songs with pretty words about pretty people, but that ain't me.

— Sixto Rodriguez

There are songs that make you sad when you hear them. But it aren't the songs that make you sad, it are…

— Anonymous

I just do the cream-of-the-crop songs in my show. We just bowl them over; they love us. It just keeps getting better.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

— Andy Gibb

I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect.

— Girl Talk

I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new…

— Sasha Velour

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

— Lou Gramm