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I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable. — Nicholas Thorburn

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible. — Graham Russell

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. — Lucinda Williams

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. — Bob Dylan

What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs. — Seymour Stein

You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have. — Abbi Glines

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. — Cass Elliot

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them. — Bobby Womack

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness. — Jason Mraz

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it. — B.B. King

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band. — Matt Berninger

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down. — Chris Lowe

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me. — Nanci Griffith

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues. — Chuck Berry

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well. — Lindsay Lohan

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. — Steven Adler

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own. — Dito Montiel

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em. — Dick Dale

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that. — Stephan Jenkins

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge. — Sean Lennon

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score. — Hans Zimmer

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. — George R R Martin

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. — John James Audubon

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun! — Odeya Rush

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins

Music revived my spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again ... — Charlotte Alington Barnard

Like punk?" She wrinkled her nose. She could stand a few Dead Milkmen songs, but other than that, she hated Park's punk music. "I — Rainbow Rowell

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. — Paul Westerberg

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs. — Jake Owen

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. — Gavin Rossdale

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back. — Brenda Holloway

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11. — Keith Stanfield

I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs. — Kid Rock

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. — Shaan

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me. — Alison Krauss

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.' — Taylor Swift

The saddest songs are always about love. — Nora Roberts

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs — Shakira

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs. — David Archuleta

I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot. — Jessie Ware

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music. — Girl Talk

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it. — Adam Jones

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt

I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian. — Stjepan Hauser

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it. — Drake Bell

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. — Randy Travis

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act. — Juliana Hatfield

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas. — Psy

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history, — George Nethercutt

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired. — Scout Niblett

Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory. — Louie Giglio

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. — Barry Gibb

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one. — Colin Trevorrow

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs. — Gregory Harrison

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room. — Richard Marx

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films. — Juicy J

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving. — Adam Schlesinger

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing. — Rabindranath Tagore

long to taste the honeyed breeze and touch the rubied apple's flavor - to speak with soft conversing leaves, the songs of sky's white clouds to savor. — Marcia Lynn McClure

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. — Betty Buckley

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet? — Christina Rossetti

We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to! — Graham Russell

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day. — Bryan Ferry

I think it needs work. Like all your other songs."
"Yeah, well, your face will need some work after I give you a good beatin'. — Kami Garcia

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery. — Mason Cooley

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings. — Brenda Lee

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation. — Nick Lowe

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining. — Laura Mvula

All in all, the Song of Songs struck me as surprisingly liberating this time around. — Rachel Held Evans

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. — Paul McCartney

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us. — Beyonce Knowles

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention. — Ben Harper

Songs are as sad as the listener. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. — Shane MacGowan

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste. — Tom Rush

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record. — Conway Twitty

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. — Jerry Only

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special. — Dierks Bentley

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw. — Zola Jesus

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. — Daniel Johnston

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful. — Steve Forbert

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs. — John Lydon

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. — Patti LaBelle

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs. — Sue Thoele

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality. — SonReal

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

Sing songs that none have sung — Paramahansa Yogananda