#song

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. ↗

— Marc Almond

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #always #classic #comes

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#construct #first #mix #out #song

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you. ↗

— Gary Allan

#candy #cry #emotion #feel #hear

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through. ↗

— Gary Allan

#going #i #life #people #relevant

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

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

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #remember #songs #writing #written

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#having #i #i write #little #live