#songs

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. ↗

— Billy Joel

#meet #music #now #probably #reason

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record. ↗

— David Johansen

#determine #elimination #fall #interest #kind

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good. ↗

— Elton John

#because #emotion #ever #everything #go

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. ↗

— Adam Jones

#many #opiate #out #songs #time

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs. ↗

— Adam Jones

#band #hit #makes #music #part

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it. ↗

— Adam Jones

#ending #felt #going #keep #like

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#art #back #band #came #connected

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious. ↗

— Kimbra

#choir #express #far #guitar #hobby

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. ↗

— B. B. King

#find #get #people #songs #way

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible. ↗

— Graham Russell

#any #first #i #i think #songs