#songs

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. ↗

— Billy Joel

#meet #music #now #probably #reason

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good. ↗

— Elton John

#because #emotion #ever #everything #go

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fully #old #slave #songs #themselves

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. ↗

— Adam Jones

#many #opiate #out #songs #time

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs. ↗

— Adam Jones

#band #hit #makes #music #part

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#else #feel #i #lyrics #myself

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#copies #like #neil #neil young #songs

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#been #completely #dark #fascinated #gloomy

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#edited #every #every day #experiences #go