Songs Quotes

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.