#songs

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#adult #any #choruses #hook #i

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

— Avril Lavigne

#bubble #dance #dancers #every #gum

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#across #come #feel #get #got

People take songs so literally. ↗

— Richard Marx

#people #songs #take

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#certain #every #format #get #guess

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#lot #lyrics #melody #other #song

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#actually #hearing #interested #lot #memory

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#blues #i #sad #sad songs #songs

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#back #bobby #book #collected #come

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs. ↗

— Neil Innes

#mostly #songs #viv #wrote