#song

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#did #entertain #guy #i #kidding

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#gonna #i #many #moved #musicals

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#report #responsibility #singer-songwriter

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#i #i can #opera #rock #songs

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#called #hype #i #keen #music

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole porter #enough #first #five #george

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men. ↗

— George Michael

#been #fairly #i #i do #know

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song. ↗

— George Michael

#anything #before #confidence #dinner #done

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense. ↗

— Christina Milian

#else #give #gladly #greedy #i

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side. ↗

— Bode Miller

#electricity #era #exposure #got #growing