#songs

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#attracted #bass #became #being #bought

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#dream #film #i #into #life

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#different #different parts #i #like #lots

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. ↗

— John Lennon

#answers #believe #claimed #claiming #divinity

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#also #because #burning #express #had

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. ↗

— Adam Levine

#confused #emotionally #enables #honest #i

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. ↗

— Philip Levine

#been #carried #had #her #mother

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#drop #groove #half #light #messages

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#books #ears #figure #fingers #friend