Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTo reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. Votes: 2
Ricky NelsonIt's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy. Votes: 2
Greg GraffinThere's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.' Votes: 2
Fetty WapI think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time. Votes: 2
Scott IanThere are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
Billie Joe ArmstrongI'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.
William FitzsimmonsSappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
Robert BrowningI have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
Stephan JenkinsThere are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
Townes Van ZandtI play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.
Frank FairfieldThe only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.
Jackie GleasonMy template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
Mick FleetwoodPeople naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
Miranda LambertBillie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
Theophilus LondonAs a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
Eric BachmannI've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.
Gloria GaynorYou have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.
Harbhajan Singh YogiI sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.
Justin HaywardWhat I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl LagerfeldI didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.
Madonna CicconeNowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
Marian McPartlandFestivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.
Scott HutchisonEvery single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
Sebastian BachI'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.
Sharon Van EttenMusic-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
W. Somerset MaughamRappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.
Damien FaheyI think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.
Deanna DurbinI don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
Holly ValanceThis film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.
Jennifer LopezI like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine.
Scott HutchisonI borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Adrian BelewSometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.
Ella FitzgeraldSome of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.
Heather HeadleyMy mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
Joan ArmatradingSweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
Jon AndersonLife songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.
Michael JacksonI've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.
Phil ElvrumI could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Robert SmithI like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
Sean LennonThere are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.
Celine DionI hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.
George HarrisonTo get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
James BluntThe people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
Jimmy WebbAnd this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
Katey SagalEach time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
Natasha HamiltonThe songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
Peter YarrowI'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
Andy GibbI wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
Dick DaleYou could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.
Isaac HansonI don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
James Taylor[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.
Kristin ChenowethI really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
Martina McBrideThere are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too
Michael W. SmithI like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
Yael NaimI have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.
Olivia Newton-JohnI try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.
Andrew McMahonI always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
Cameron CroweI'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.
Dan ManganWhat's the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?
Dave GrohlCertain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
Elvis CostelloThe thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.
George EzraMy songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.
Jeff MangumThere's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
Layne StaleyFor Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
Matt DamonArtists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
Terri ClarkI'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.
William BeckettOne day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
Woody GuthrieI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanI don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.
Christian KaneMost of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
Dave GrohlPeople can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.
Girl TalkI don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."
Greg BrownI don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
John MayerMen are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
Kristin HershAll my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
Laura MarlingI've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
Leif GarrettIf I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be âSing your prayers.'
Paul BalocheYou won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.
Snoop DoggWhenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
Allen ToussaintI always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
Amy WinehouseI don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
Angel OlsenThe best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.
Bob DylanA lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
Dolly PartonMusic just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.
JadakissI can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
Rachael YamagataTo me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
Reba McEntireAnd I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
Smokey RobinsonNormally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. LuciaJust because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.
Thalia ZedekIt costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
Allan MoyleThere are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
Amy WinehouseI am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
Bethany CosentinoI think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
Carly SimonAh me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you callâd them sweet?
Christina RossettiWhen your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.
Cody Johnson