#song

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#certain #i #just #keep #lighter

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip! ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#gorgeous #hip #i #man #me

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#i #songs #trying #write

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#bass #comfortable #compositional #feel #i

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. ↗

— John Legend

#artists #i #i always #me #myself

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#baltimore #black #born #cans #coal

I like songs that go to different places and then come back. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#come #different #different places #go #i

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. ↗

— Frank Black

#context #danger #death #fire #includes

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have. ↗

— Martina McBride

#full #goal #great #i #i always

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#i #know #lot #me #people