Songs Quotes

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

I love bummer songs.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

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

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.