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

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

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

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
Sebastian Bach

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
Sebastian Bach

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
Sebastian Bach

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

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
Bruce Dickinson

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
Ziggy Marley

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

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
Tori Amos

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.
Kid Rock

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.
Rob Zombie

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
Alicia Keys

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
Alicia Keys

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
Elliott Smith