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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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet? — Christina Rossetti
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
"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
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'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
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