Quotes of: Old-songs Keyword

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

Tove Lo

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

Art Linkletter

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

Greg Lake

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

Jimmy Webb

It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

Olly Murs

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Ronnie Hawkins

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Peter Garrett

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Phil Ochs

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

Paul Westerberg

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

Stone Gossard

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

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

Ben Lovett

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

Brian Posehn

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

Charles King

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

Florence Welch

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Gary Cherone

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Grace Slick

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

Henry Rollins

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Henry Rollins

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

Jello Biafra

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

Judy Collins