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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
I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.
— Corey Smith
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
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
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
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
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
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
— Laura Marling
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 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
