Songs Quotes · Page 73

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

— Celine Dion

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

— Christine McVie

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute…

— Steve Jobs

We have some very personal songs; songs that are a little more close to our hearts, that speak our story a little…

— Rose

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start…

— B. B. King

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of…

— Rudger Clawson

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone.…

— Neil Gaiman

I hate it when I'm singing a song and someone joins in! Please, this isn't Glee!

— Anonymous

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They…

— Art Alexakis

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I…

— Leonard Cohen

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I…

— Gary Numan

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that…

— Gerry Rafferty

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show…

— Alex Turner

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with…

— Mick Ralphs

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's…

— Jello Biafra

Songs are funny... They bring back memories, They tell stories, They remind us of people and They can save people's life. Yeah…

— Anonymous

I started remaking songs that were already poppin' - it was easier like that.

— Lil Mosey

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

— Blaise Pascal

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of…

— Pete Seeger

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

— George Harrison

Darren Hayes is an artist. Im a singer, I write songs, but the things I do have always been bigger than me.

— Darren Hayes

All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.

— Jessie Reyez

There are songs that do get lost along the way, but as soon as you pull them out it all comes back…

— Mike Campbell

One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.

— Paolo Nutini

I've been writing songs on my own since I was 13, and the same is true of Derek.

— Susan Tedeschi

I'm gonna cut my veins only got 20 scissors in my pocket i,i,i'm cutting looking for a vein this is legendary..;D

— Mee

You learn a lot about people when you listen to the songs that mean something to them.

— Anonymous

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to…

— Freddie Mercury

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind…

— St. Lucia

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

— Mark Knopfler

We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right…

— Lindsey Buckingham

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them,…

— Mick Jagger

I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.

— Immortal Technique

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

— Neha Kakkar

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to…

— Stephen Sondheim

Boys are like songs: Some of them you like and listen to all the time, but there is that one you just…

— Alexia

“Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I'm not a huge fan of Madonna's songs. I liked Cyndi Lauper better growing up.

— Peaches

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale