#song

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#certain way #demands #ignore #impossible #magnetism

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#high #hold #i #performing #pleasure

My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#every #i #i love #like #love

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. ↗

— William Watson

#disappear #dissolve #empires #passes #song

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#happy #i #i think #mad #make

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

#always #anybody #apart #books #come

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. ↗

— Jimmy Webb

#making money #money #ones #own #people

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones. ↗

— Dean Ween

#dozen #good #good ones #least #ones

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs. ↗

— Gene Ween

#before #beginning #breakup #direct #end