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

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

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

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
Johnny Rivers

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

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

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

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

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.
Smokey Robinson

I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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