I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with… — Eddy Arnold Copy Share Image
Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing.… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
To someone who's more of a surface fan, their favorite songs are the singles. But, we're the kind of band where a… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and… — Patrick Wang Copy Share Image
I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I… — Tyga Copy Share Image
When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet.… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my… — D. Imman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and… — Kerry Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went… — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
