If you are having a hard week, turn on one of my songs. Some people are here for different things in life.… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I got to work with David Hodges, who used to be in Evanescence, on some songs. He's written a ton of songs… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me,… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this,… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
“Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know?… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a… — Bernie Leadon Copy Share Image
For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I feel that if Bollywood singers focus on non-film music as well... like this EP 'Naina,' which has songs sung by Sonu… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important… — Aurora Copy Share Image
Everybody dreams about writing one of those songs. I've had a lot of songs I'm proud of. A lot of them. But… — Everlast Copy Share Image
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it.… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that… — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
What I find really interesting about our songs is that one part might sound completely different from another, but they fit together… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly,… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
