Songs Quotes · Page 75

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire…

— Roger Waters

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

— Rodney Atkins

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

— Sid Sriram

I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and…

— Lewis Capaldi

Of course, we're very excited if our songs and albums do well, but that's not necessarily a goal that we set.

— Jin

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

— Mark Lanegan

There are songs out there in the world which, in some ways, seem so unmusical.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I started out dabbling in rock and roll; then I did playback, and I have also sung for my own songs on…

— Shruti Haasan

Think about being onstage playing these songs. I'm opening my personal life up to all these people. But I just can't get…

— Tony Kanal

Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right…

— Paul Baribeau

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end…

— Conor Oberst

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that…

— Smokey Robinson

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things,…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't…

— John Irving

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax…

— Trevor Donovan

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me…

— Ella Henderson

I love to play the songs that got me to where I am. I like to take a little bit from all…

— Mat Kearney

I get many offers from Tamil films but I refuse to do them because I get offers to do item songs.

— Mandira Bedi

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent…

— Chrissie Hynde

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

— Greg Lake

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

— Robert Smith

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what…

— Tyler Farr

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

— Jules Shear

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

— Chuck D

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

— Jim Morrison

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

— Bishop Briggs

My first hits were behind the scenes, producing songs for Chipmunk and Wiley and working with Emeli Sande.

— Naughty Boy

“The best song in the whole wide world is one that reminds us of something.”

— Abayomi Kayode Patrick

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy.…

— Neil Armstrong

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went…

— Ozzy Osbourne

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of…

— Katy Evans

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

— Bruno Mars

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

— Rachel Stevens

Every time you hear an 808 drum machine beat on one of my songs, it comes from Freaknik.

— The-Dream

I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.

— Jessie James Decker

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into…

— Lenny Kravitz