Quotes of: Pop-songs Keyword

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Marvin Hamlisch

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Marvin Hamlisch

When you die you will not bring any possessions, but you will be accompanied by the song up into heaven…

Maria Herliana

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

Mahalia Jackson

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Mahalia Jackson

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

Mika

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

Mika

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

Mike Love

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

Miranda Lambert

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

Miranda Lambert

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

Ric Ocasek

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Richie Sambora

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Richie Sambora

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Richard Thompson

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Robert Wyatt

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Sherman Alexie

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

Mandy Patinkin

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

Michael Pitt

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

Mike Stoller

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

Mel Torme