#song

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words. ↗

— Shakira

#before #care #conscious #fact #feel

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover. ↗

— Shakira

#either #heart #kills #love #lover

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#i #know #once #own #pretty

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#concerned #entertaining #fell #fun #going

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#before #fraught #laughter #look #our

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#saddest #songs #sweetest #tell #those

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?' ↗

— Blake Shelton

#anybody #ask #back #cranking #home

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #lived #sometimes #songs #started

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. ↗