Songs Quotes

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

My songs are like my kids.

He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.

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

My songs grow on people - like warts.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.