Disgusting Quote by Sixto Rodriguez

You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.

— Tarana Burke

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very…

— Alanis Morissette

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

— Alex Kapranos

"I'll Still Destroy You" song is lovingly talking about how we change our states of mind, whether it's weed or wine or whatever. It's…

— Aaron Dessner

I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous…

— Tom Lehrer

I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he…

— Jessie Ware

The way certain songs can fuck with your whole mood and mindset.

— Amit Verma

Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in…

— Billy Squier

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

— John Mellencamp

When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of…

— Chance The Rapper

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for…

— Michel Gondry

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express…

— Annie Lennox