#song

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. ↗

— Les Baxter

#becomes #challenge #hit #imagination #ingenuity

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#break #care #doing #every #fact

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear. ↗

— Bo Bice

#buying #guy #hear #i #money

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#composers #different #different elements #elements #everything

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs. ↗

— John Bonham

#before #break #could #done #everywhere

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #been #buy #choose #conscious

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes. ↗

— Bart Howard

#find #how #i #me #minutes

Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#songs #business

Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind ↗

— Elvis Presley

#love

love is but an echo in her head ↗

— David Cantor

#echo #love #lyric #sequined-mermaid-dress #song