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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs. — Andy Rourke

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record ... So I was just writing songs. — Billy Sherwood

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked. — Chris Cornell

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs. — William Arthur Ward

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

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing. — Rosanne Cash

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second. — Dan Bejar

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs. — Bob Dylan

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. — Kathleen Hanna

And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?"
"Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

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

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. — Billy Joel

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded. — Paul Dano

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar — Ingrid Michaelson

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years. — Beck

It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows. — Prince

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

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through. — Susannah McCorkle

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone. — Jean Grae

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

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me. — Nana Mouskouri

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn

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

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. — Stephan Jenkins

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. — Peter Hammill

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs. — Rabindranath Tagore

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them. — Jimmy Webb

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people. — Kiri Te Kanawa

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else. — Benjamin Booker

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs! — Madonna Ciccone

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five For Fighting

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra. — Pia Zadora

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. — J Mascis

I want to write songs and play them for people - live. — T Bone Burnett

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you. — Christian Kane

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not. — Jake Owen

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

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. — Sarah Dessen

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 respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don't say a lot or seem like normal persons. — Liam Gallagher

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun. — Miranda Lambert

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs. — Blake Shelton

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words. — Peter Garrett

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

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'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent. — Adele

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

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done. — Tanya Tucker

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

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music. — Mike Willis

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction. — Roger Glover

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs. — Adele

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people. — Kimbra

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

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

I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise. — Anna Akhmatova

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

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop. — Freddie Mercury

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute. — Alan Jackson

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had. — Ric Ocasek

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer. — PJ Harvey

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

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex. — Margaret Cho

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. — Siobhan Fahey

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right. — Bob Marley

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. — Hilary Duff

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

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating. — Miranda Lambert

A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen — Bob Brookmeyer

All we have is "One Life", so go for IT! — Shannon L. Alder

You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too. — Bryan Ferry

"Money to Burn" is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors. — Ladyhawke

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought. — Toby Keith

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for. — Wade MacNeil

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs. — Jim Morrison

The words of the songs speak for themselves. — Cat Stevens

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale. — Prince

I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm. — Joan Didion

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. — Alan Menken

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork — Elaine Stritch

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written. — Mark Knopfler

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in. — Sydney Carter

My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There'll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you ... — Emme Rollins

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

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me. — Skylar Grey

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years. — Daisy Berkowitz

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs. — Keith Urban

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. — Martin Gore

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones. — Richard Powers

leave me some music
that's chocolate
for the heart. — Sanober Khan

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs. — Bif Naked

I listen
as I eat the street for supper,
listen to the pain songs
of Mexico.
Flashes of returning
come with the birds. — Joseph Ceravolo

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time. — James Taylor

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me. — M. Ward

Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs. — Jens Lekman

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

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending. — Girl Talk

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker