When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Shane MacGowan

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
Aretha Franklin

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
Joan Jett

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.
Tim Finn

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.
Chris Brown

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
Chris Brown

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
Nick Lowe

I made my first complete song when I was 9.
Ludacris

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.
Jason Mraz

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.
Chris LeDoux

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
Chris LeDoux

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Chris LeDoux

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
Nick Cave

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
Martin Gore

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
Martin Gore

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
Namie Amuro

Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
Jason Zebehazy