#song

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#songs #ways #write

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. ↗

— Marc Almond

#collection #great #i #just #next

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. ↗

— Tori Amos

#compared #feel #getting #occurring #passage

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #just #living #living room #me

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. ↗

— Tori Amos

#allow #always #brings #cliffs #depend

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. ↗

— Tori Amos

#conversation #having #i #live #play

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#almost #been #big #choke #dance

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#how #i #know #song #wanted

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#another #beatles #bed #best #cry