Songs Quotes

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.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

I really, really like writing songs.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.