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ADAM SCHLESINGER The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live per...
IAN ANDERSON![]()
Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
CHAKA KHAN![]()
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
KATE SMITH I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it....
GRETCHEN WILSON We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective, and from the more t...
DEBBY BOONE Lend me thy pen To write a word In the moonlight. Pierrot, my friend! My candle'...
FOLK SONGS We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in...
ALAN JACKSON There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
LAYNE STALEY "Songs of Thanksgiving create sunshine in the hearts of the listeners." ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be ...
JAMES MERCER![]()
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear...
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M.I.A.![]()
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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EMBER SWIFT Our choir director would always have us sing the slow, serious songs. You know, the songs that have ...
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ETHAN HAMPTON![]()
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of...
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J. TILLMAN![]()
We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u...
ANTHONY KIEDIS![]()
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do th...
REBA MCENTIRE As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they...
JOHNNY RAMONE These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a...
TANYA TUCKER We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We ...
FRED HAMMOND![]()
If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs.
DEBASISH MRIDHA![]()
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart
ROBERT BROWNING As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER![]()
When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record a...
JIMMY PAGE![]()
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS![]()
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if...
COLIN HAY Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH![]()
I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
NICK CAVE As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs es...
STACIE ORRICO![]()
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g...
REBA MCENTIRE I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN![]()
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a cover...
ROBERT CRAY There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't son...
CASS ELLIOT Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE![]()
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyric...
JOHN MELLENCAMP You can expect fast, barreling punk songs. We have alt-country songs. We have a song that combines j...
DREW BENTON![]()
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki...
TOM LEHRER I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish te...
CHARLOTTE ALINGTON BARNARD T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is re...
BETTY BUCKLEY I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosb...
LEON BRIDGES![]()
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are...
JASON ALDEAN But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they sai...
GEORGE MARTIN We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA He has a good method. 30 minutes of theory and a half-hour of playing the songs.
CHIP BROWN the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.
JUDITH HILL![]()
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
SYLVIA PLATH If the chanting in temple would help inner peace, if the preaching in a mosque would address humanit...
PREETH NAMBIAR We're gonna bring in different songs and play for two hours. That's our new thing. We never played f...
JONATHAN DAVIS As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs ...
PATRICIA HEATON The songs were very popular; sometimes people who didn't even support a candidate would know all the...
OSCAR BRAND![]()
Listen to that song, and learn it!
Half my kingdom would I give,
As I live,
If by such s...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW![]()
It's not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn't have anything to read ...
CLAIRE DANES With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I...
DAVID COVERDALE![]()
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and ...
TOM WAITS We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.
BEN CLARK I would make the mistake of playing [songs] for the other guys, and they would pick the three or fou...
STEPHEN STILLS You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer...
BRETT SCALLIONS You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer...
BRETT SCALLIONS![]()
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a f...
EDIE BRICKELL![]()
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in th...
EILEEN MYLES![]()
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of m...
JOHN MELLENCAMP![]()
He would sing Rent songs to me. He told me how much he really loved musical theatre, which you would...
IDINA MENZEL![]()
I don't separate my work with the band from this solo project-I'm sure the group could have recorded...
CHRISTINE MCVIE Ariel Pink would be a regular on the Mike Douglas Show. Both a master songwriter and a charismatic f...
GREG GUTFELD They have songs about him.
LORNAH KIPLAGAT![]()
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old ...
ROGER MCGUINN![]()
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st...
BEN KINGSLEY![]()
The idea to write fresh, radio friendly pop songs would get an extra dimension if I could use two di...
MIKE RUTHERFORD Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it&...
WIN BUTLER When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made th...
ALOE BLACC I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.
ESTER DEAN![]()
Sang in tones of deep emotion
Songs of love and songs of longing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w...
PRISCILLA AHN![]()
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singe...
KATHLEEN HANNA![]()
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they w...
ALAN LOMAX I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a...
DANE COOK This condition measured the quality of the songs and allowed us to see what outcome would result in ...
MATTHEW SALGANIK We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook the...
JEFF LABAR I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit ...
JUSTIN VERNON As you consider selecting songs for your worship services, consider them in light of the truth of th...
MATT CHANDLER![]()
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They ar...
CASS ELLIOT![]()
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me s...
DR. DRE![]()
Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well...
ARMAAN MALIK![]()
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
BARRY GIBB I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good son...
BENMONT TENCH I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in...
BENMONT TENCH
ADAM SCHLESINGER The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
MANDY PATINKIN
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live per... IAN ANDERSON
Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs. CHAKA KHAN
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed. KATE SMITH I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it....
GRETCHEN WILSON We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective, and from the more t...
DEBBY BOONE Lend me thy pen To write a word In the moonlight. Pierrot, my friend! My candle'...
FOLK SONGS We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in...
ALAN JACKSON There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
LAYNE STALEY "Songs of Thanksgiving create sunshine in the hearts of the listeners." ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be ...
JAMES MERCER
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear... HARRY CONNICK, JR. In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door in...
M.I.A.
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g... B. B. KING I did start writing about global politics way at the beginning. Songs that are based on having read ...
EMBER SWIFT Our choir director would always have us sing the slow, serious songs. You know, the songs that have ...
BLAIR MAYS We recorded our demo in November and it should be out in a few weeks. You can listen to rough versio...
ETHAN HAMPTON
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ...
J. TILLMAN
We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u... ANTHONY KIEDIS
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do th... REBA MCENTIRE As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they...
JOHNNY RAMONE These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a...
TANYA TUCKER We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We ...
FRED HAMMOND
If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs. DEBASISH MRIDHA
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart ROBERT BROWNING As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER
When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record a... JIMMY PAGE
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... COLIN HAY Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH
I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people. NICK CAVE As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs es...
STACIE ORRICO
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a cover... ROBERT CRAY There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't son...
CASS ELLIOT Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyric... JOHN MELLENCAMP You can expect fast, barreling punk songs. We have alt-country songs. We have a song that combines j...
DREW BENTON
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki... TOM LEHRER I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish te...
CHARLOTTE ALINGTON BARNARD T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is re...
BETTY BUCKLEY I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosb...
LEON BRIDGES
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are...
JASON ALDEAN But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they sai...
GEORGE MARTIN We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA He has a good method. 30 minutes of theory and a half-hour of playing the songs.
CHIP BROWN the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.
JUDITH HILL
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. SYLVIA PLATH If the chanting in temple would help inner peace, if the preaching in a mosque would address humanit...
PREETH NAMBIAR We're gonna bring in different songs and play for two hours. That's our new thing. We never played f...
JONATHAN DAVIS As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs ...
PATRICIA HEATON The songs were very popular; sometimes people who didn't even support a candidate would know all the...
OSCAR BRAND
Listen to that song, and learn it!
Half my kingdom would I give,
As I live,
If by such s... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
It's not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn't have anything to read ... CLAIRE DANES With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I...
DAVID COVERDALE
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and ... TOM WAITS We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.
BEN CLARK I would make the mistake of playing [songs] for the other guys, and they would pick the three or fou...
STEPHEN STILLS You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer...
BRETT SCALLIONS You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer...
BRETT SCALLIONS
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a f... EDIE BRICKELL
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in th... EILEEN MYLES
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of m... JOHN MELLENCAMP
He would sing Rent songs to me. He told me how much he really loved musical theatre, which you would... IDINA MENZEL
I don't separate my work with the band from this solo project-I'm sure the group could have recorded... CHRISTINE MCVIE Ariel Pink would be a regular on the Mike Douglas Show. Both a master songwriter and a charismatic f...
GREG GUTFELD They have songs about him.
LORNAH KIPLAGAT
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old ... ROGER MCGUINN
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st... BEN KINGSLEY
The idea to write fresh, radio friendly pop songs would get an extra dimension if I could use two di... MIKE RUTHERFORD Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it&...
WIN BUTLER When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made th...
ALOE BLACC I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.
ESTER DEAN
Sang in tones of deep emotion
Songs of love and songs of longing. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w...
PRISCILLA AHN
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singe... KATHLEEN HANNA
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they w...
ALAN LOMAX I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a...
DANE COOK This condition measured the quality of the songs and allowed us to see what outcome would result in ...
MATTHEW SALGANIK We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook the...
JEFF LABAR I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit ...
JUSTIN VERNON As you consider selecting songs for your worship services, consider them in light of the truth of th...
MATT CHANDLER
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They ar...
CASS ELLIOT
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me s... DR. DRE
Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well... ARMAAN MALIK
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them. BARRY GIBB I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good son...
BENMONT TENCH I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in...
BENMONT TENCH
