#song

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#because #both #collected #cycle #day

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#hear #his #invite #me #morning

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it. ↗

— Levon Helm

#best #best way #by the time #come #could

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#artist #hear #i #i think #job

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#corner #dancer #either #guitar #guitar player

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#dream #face #hear #job #mail

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. ↗

— Cass Elliot

#being #how #i #i am #only

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#back #fall #go #legacy #love

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#anyone #beat #catchy #empowering #hear