I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
Smokey Robinson

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Sting

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
David Friedman

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
Jonathan Davis

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
Carly Simon

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
Patti Smith

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
Jackson Browne

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
Judy Collins

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
Robert Wyatt

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
Theodore Bikel

That's what my life is, writing songs.
John Cale

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.
Mike Myers

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
Benmont Tench

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
Zooey Deschanel

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
Evan Dando