#songs

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#day #easy #every #every day #exactly

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#feel #i #i can #i feel #me

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#always #any #been #feel #finished

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#another #brief #clusters #composer #four

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. ↗

— Fred Frith

#been #business #gravity #me #more

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#blige #doing #i #like #mary

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