#song

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide. ↗

— Charles King

#committing #gift #girl #her #i

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#feminist #hero #i #i write #know

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are? ↗

— Jakob Dylan

#gross #how #i #interesting #little

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life. ↗

— Cass Elliot

#generation #life #much #songs #stupid

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#given #i #just #like #period

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#best #careers #feel #making #music

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #independent #me #music #my own

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. ↗

— Fred Frith

#improvise #just #kinds #languages #melodic

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#church #hear #hum #i #i can

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. ↗

— Randy Travis

#awards #business #having #i #just