#song

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i #i always #just #never #record

Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#myself #originally #songs #writing

Songwriting is my gift from God. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#god #songwriting

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#everyone #hopeless #hopeless romantic #i #knows

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#buck #cost #dollars #investment #just

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy. ↗

— Rick Allen

#almost #breathing #coming #enemy #get

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs. ↗

— Marc Almond

#like #make #songs

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#feel #grew #i #like #sing

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#age #america #basic #basic elements #best

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me. Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. ↗

— Hartley Coleridge

#love #love-song #beauty