I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
Joan Jett

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.
Mos Def

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
Kristin Hersh

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
David Allan Coe

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
Casey Kasem

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.
George Thorogood

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
Johnny Rivers

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
Barry Gibb

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
Fred Frith

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.
Smokey Robinson

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.
Dennis Brown

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
Ann Beattie

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian Eno

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
Rick Moranis

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting

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

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
Ethel Merman

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Sting

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.
Katy Perry

I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith