Found Quote by George Jellinek

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history,

— George Nethercutt

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of…

— Ruben Blades

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

— Chris Stein

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds…

— Kylie Minogue

I am an old soul: I do know so much about music history.

— Tiffany Darwish

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

— Russell Smith

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through…

— Brandi Carlile

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

— Wayne Coyne

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

— Paul McCartney

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

— Dan Hill

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

— Philip Carr-Gomm

There's something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

— Trace Cyrus