I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
Jon Crosby

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
Tracy Chapman

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
Tracy Chapman

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
Tracy Chapman

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
Tracy Chapman

I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
Buck Owens

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'
Buck Owens

I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
Buck Owens

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
Kristin Hersh

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
Damon Albarn

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
Emma Anderson

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
Joanna Newsom

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
Joe Cocker

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
Joe Cocker

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
Nana Mouskouri

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

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
Lars Ulrich

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

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
Joanna Newsom