Songs Quotes

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

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

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.