#song

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#day #fell #head #into #one day

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#down #duck #eating #i #i love

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#acoustic guitar #best #best way #creating #different

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#got #i #idea #just #song

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#baseball #baseball game #game #i #music

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#i #really #songs #therapeutic #value

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#entire life #fall #get #happen #high

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#approach #better #bit #changed #evolved

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#civil rights #country #i #move #people

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. ↗

— Harlan Howard

#just #lot #pencil #songs #write