It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
Elliott Smith

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
Elliott Smith

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
Elliott Smith

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.
John Frusciante

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

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
Mahalia Jackson

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Mahalia Jackson

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
Gwen Stefani

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
Siobhan Fahey

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Fahey

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
Reba McEntire

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
Reba McEntire

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

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Irvine Welsh