#songs

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#nobody #people #personal #say #sing

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compilation #coverage #creativity #critical #during

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#barrier #both #i #i do #instant

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#brilliant #doing #enjoy #great #hand

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#becomes #collection #create #group #may

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame. ↗

— Randy Newman

#always #anyone #because #blame #complaining

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time. ↗

— Jerry Only

#based #bunch #doing #good #good time

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. ↗

— Jerry Only

#close #danny #days #i #look

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. ↗

— Jerry Only

#between #bunch #childhood #childhood dream #come

I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry. ↗

— Buck Owens

#basic #berry #bit #change #chuck