I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
Neil Young

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
Neil Young

The words of the songs speak for themselves.
Cat Stevens

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
Yoko Ono

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
Bruce Springsteen

I like songs that are simple.
Syd Barrett

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
Bryan Adams

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Carlos Santana

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
Fiona Apple

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple

My songs are just little letters to me.
Ani DiFranco

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
Johnny Cash

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