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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself. — Nana Mouskouri

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. — Joni Mitchell

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something. — Luke Bryan

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. — Liz Phair

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing. — Alison Krauss

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate. — Corey Smith

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. — Tori Amos

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself. — Jonathan Richman

I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them. — Larry McMurtry

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself. — Chris Daughtry

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?' — Blake Shelton

The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ... — Walt Whitman

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow. — Damien Rice

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. — Billy Corgan

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself. — John Darnielle

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it. — Sky Ferreira

As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself. — Verka Serduchka

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not. — Amos Lee

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved. — Conor Oberst

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos. — Christina Perri

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs. — Deanna Durbin

I put myself into character for my songs. — Michelle Branch

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself. — Annie Lennox

I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs. — Ian McLagan

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord. — Jamie Blackley

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her. — Paul Oakenfold

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. — David Friedman

Originally I was not writing songs for myself. — Smokey Robinson

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. — Natalie Cole

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim. — Boy George

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. — Bill Wyman

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing. — Katherine Jenkins

Most of my songs make fun of myself. — Bo Burnham

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too. — Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

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

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' — Natalie Cole

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

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences. — Laura Marling

I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's
usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time. — Ludacris

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music ... — Gustav Ejstes

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do. — Richard Marx

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. — Adrian Belew

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

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself. — Townes Van Zandt

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

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. — Carly Simon

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. — Richard Thompson

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like. — Michael Gungor

I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes. — Linda Ronstadt

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. — Ani DiFranco

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive. — Jenny Lewis

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again. — Sade Adu

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'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial. — Courtney Barnett

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself. — Mika.