For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.
John Fahey

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
Stephen Sondheim

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Stephen Sondheim

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
Bill Wyman

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
Bill Wyman

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.
Janet Jackson

I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Ben Harper

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
Ben Harper

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
Chris Brown

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

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.
Thom Yorke

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
June Carter Cash