#songs

But I always loved songs with great lyrics. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#great #i #i always #loved #lyrics

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart. ↗

— Jon Secada

#honest #honesty #lot #music #pop

There are so many great songs yet to sing. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#many #sing #songs #yet

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#i #songs #trying #write

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#baltimore #black #born #cans #coal

I like songs that go to different places and then come back. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#come #different #different places #go #i

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#black music #interest #music #only #our

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#bus #get #i #ideas #just

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#bunch #down #get #goes #into