All Quotes

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
‐‐ Laura Marling

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
‐‐ Christine McVie

My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.
‐‐ Jenny Scheinman

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
‐‐ Shakira

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.
‐‐ Robin Thicke

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
‐‐ David Crosby

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
‐‐ Justin Hayward

My songs grow on people - like warts.
‐‐ Glenn Frey

My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
‐‐ Imogen Heap

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
‐‐ Jakob Dylan

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.
‐‐ Jeff Mangum

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
‐‐ Birdy

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

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
‐‐ Boz Scaggs

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
‐‐ John Oates

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.
‐‐ James Bay

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.
‐‐ James Bay

My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
‐‐ Don Johnson

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.
‐‐ Doug E. Fresh

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
‐‐ Keith Emerson

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.
‐‐ Hayley Mills

My sons have such a deep access to my heart.
‐‐ Austin Peck

My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
‐‐ Bruce Sutter

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.
‐‐ Mo Rocca

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
‐‐ Jane Austen

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
‐‐ Robert Frost

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
‐‐ Michelangelo

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
‐‐ Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is fine, thanks.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

My soul is in good shape.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
‐‐ Francis Asbury

My soul is not for sale.
‐‐ Caryl Chessman

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
‐‐ Karl Shapiro

My soul is still Irish.
‐‐ Ciaran Hinds

My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
‐‐ Blair Underwood

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.
‐‐ Jess Glynne

My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.
‐‐ Kiesza