#songs

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing. ↗

— Ben Folds

#carefully #craft #enough #feel #fifteen

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. ↗

— John Denver

#get #good #good fortune #good songs #great

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#i #into #kind #make #put

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. ↗

— Connie Francis

#because #definitely #encouraged #had #hated

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #itself #me #part #person

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams. ↗

— Celine Dion

#business #dreams #feel #go #helps

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#comes #get #i #me #my own

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#back #barry #came #complement #during

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#because #behind #clubs #felt #getting