#songs

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#broken #glamour #just #life #mistakes

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#around #career #greatest #greatest hits #hits

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#better #lot #person #record #songs

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#decide #just #need #one day #songs

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#i #i think #like #lot #men

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#always #basically #bob #bob dylan #did

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is. ↗

— James Blunt

#demos #eventually #everything #found #had

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs! ↗

— Zac Efron

#cd #doing #future #i #kid

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 or humming to just the right song. ↗

— Barbara Brooke

#mood #movies #songs #food