Great songs don’t grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to...

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn’t usually in Christmas songs.

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I’ve written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

I’m so hard on myself that when I’m in the studio, I’ll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, ‘Where could these go? Who...

Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and...

If it were bad songs, yeah, I’d speak up, but they’re not bad songs.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, ‘How does it feel?’ And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

I suspect that I’m not alone when it comes to altering my surroundings depending on how I feel at any particular moment: diving into a specific book, immersing inside a particular movie, devouring certain foods...

Ukipata matatizo kumbuka kwamba Yesu alipata matatizo pia, na kutokana na matatizo hayo mimi na wewe tulipata uhuru. Soma Biblia. Soma nyimbo katika kitabu cha Zaburi zinazomsifu Mungu katika kipindi cha matatizo. Funga na kuomba...

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

Fortunately any of the songs we’ve recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a God. It’s kind of defending the indefensible, though; I’m critical of what religions are...

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone...

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

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.

I live there…Far above the song-filled clouds,where the dewdrops touch my skin so bareI live there.

One day I’ll wake up and I’ll have 10 or 12 songs and think, ‘Oh that sounds like it could be a record.’

A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn’t play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

I’ve been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those...

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn’t experience. But,...

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We’re similar but there’s nobody in my lane doing what I’m doing.

If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.

A place for the newly weds and nearly deads I’m counting the stones I hope you know I love you.Got a lot of friends 6 feet under us.Counting down the days till we join the...

I don’t like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye.

I don’t think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it’s more important that it’s like, ‘Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is...

My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

Then his voice resonates over the speakers again. ‘A good friend helped me find these lyrics again, and I told her if she ever fell, I’d be there to catch her. She told me if...

Your life is your song, sing it loud!

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.

My husband doesn’t know what my songs are about – even when they’re about him. He’s very British in that way. He doesn’t ask, and he doesn’t want to be told.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.

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

The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don’t leave your potentials untouched!

I can’t be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I’ve written songs.

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn’t made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn’t yet.

I love all things Queen – their songs are epic storytelling.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.