Songs Quotes

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

The people in my songs are all me.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

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

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.