#songs

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#falklands #first #got #gulf #gulf war

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bit #go #into #like #love

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#billie holiday #edith #gets #holiday #i

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#bad #come #expect #few #goes

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids. ↗

— Edie Falco

#even #fan #go #hasn #her

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.' ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#bigger #down #everybody #felt #forward

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#songs #themselves #write

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#am #come #first #get #good

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#either #give #hearing #heartbroken #just

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#ago #because #era #i #my own