Songs Quotes · Page 79

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

— Joe Nichols

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

— Steve Forbert

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

— Randy Jackson

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

— David Friedman

The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.

— Sia

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll…

— Hillary Scott

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

— Shreya Ghoshal

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

— Judith Hill

To me, songs hit harder when they live in the questions, because songs have always been a mode of sorting through my…

— JP Saxe

There are some great songs - like, I really like 'Snowcone' and 'Whelk Then' and 'No Problem.' I think I'm dissatisfied that…

— Deadmau5

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I…

— John McCormack

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the…

— Regina Spektor

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's…

— David Lynch

I think my least favourite thing to listen to is perfect songs, perfect performances. They don't feel human to me, and in…

— Frank Iero

I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my…

— Betty Who

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.…

— Mike Love

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

— Fritz Lang

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

— Bebe Rexha

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

— Bryan Batt

No artist that beefs with me or talks down on my name has that many platinum songs. They're all gold.

— Trippie Redd

Before you came I used to hear our song and it never ment anything, but now evertime I hear it…all I can…

— Ana

I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the…

— Jessie Ware

Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.

— CL

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

— Craig David

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a…

— Paul Dano

I don't know why, but you didn't hear a lot of sad, depressing, ballad-y stuff coming out of the '70s. It was…

— Uncle Kracker

I do have certain people whom I want to work with. The kind of people I want to work with won't cast…

— Nushrat Bharucha

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were…

— Travie McCoy

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

— Brian Fallon

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film…

— Michael Pitt

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

— Taylor Swift

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

— Jackie Gleason

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

— Anne Murray

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow…

— Julian Casablancas

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

— Dolly Parton

I got more songs with Gunna than anybody - that's like the only person who I'm around!

— Lil Baby

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

— Richard Hawley

Singing to a song you don't really know...but that 15 second part you do know is coming up and you're gonna own…

— Anonymous

Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

— Jens Lekman

The cover songs I do aren't radically altered - they're too beautiful to mess with.

— Tim Russ