Around Quote by Keith Urban

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't…

— Tom Waits

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song…

— Sufjan Stevens

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently…

— Tom Waits

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they…

— Billy Corgan

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

— Guru Randhawa

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give…

— Will Oldham

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred…

— Richard Morris

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people…

— Catie Curtis

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our songs.

— Shavo Odadjian

I always think it's more interesting to leave the context of those songs a little vague. Like, all these songs come from me, and…

— Alex G

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to…

— Rodney Crowell