Songs Quotes

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

I love writing songs.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

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

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

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.