Quotes of: Folk-songs Keyword

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Melissa Etheridge

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

Melora Hardin

Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

Becky G

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

Kailash Kher

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Christine McVie

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Ezra Koenig

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

Benmont Tench

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

Brian Wilson

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Hunter Hayes

Over the boundary of time, Hope transcends, Desire sings, One verse, One song, And that is the song of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

Leah LaBelle

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

Evan Rachel Wood

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

John Deacon

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

Nate Ruess

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

Richard Marx

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

John Frusciante

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Bruce Cockburn

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

Paul Weller

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Wayne Coyne

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

Will Oldham

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

Jeff Tweedy