#song

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time. ↗

— Kimbra

#bit #catchy #challenging #consuming #depth

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious. ↗

— Kimbra

#choir #express #far #guitar #hobby

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. ↗

— B. B. King

#find #get #people #songs #way

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist. ↗

— Ben E. King

#associated #aware #ben #called #course

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public. ↗

— Ben E. King

#enough #even #guitar #i #i can

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that. ↗

— Charles King

#chorus #i #i can #i think #just

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together. ↗

— Charles King

#arguing #bring #fill #guarantee #homophobic

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#correct #corresponds #happy #happy marriage #improvised

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen. ↗

— John Sebastian

#company #happen #i #make #onto

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that. ↗

— Jon Secada

#air #come #concerned #going #i