#songs

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#challenged #cultural #general #going #kind

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#awards #flattery #nice #quality #songs

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. ↗

— Dave Davies

#like #make #me #people #songs

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #believe #conditions #good #had

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. ↗

— Fred Frith

#how #idea #songs #sound #write

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come. ↗

— John Frusciante

#feel #i #just #like #out

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. ↗

— John Frusciante

#doing #i #i write #kind #music

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. ↗

— Kenny G

#create #fine #i #i do #improvise

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere. ↗

— Kenny G

#ego #even #i #like #listen

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there. ↗

— Peter Gabriel

#flight #flop #get #hand #hard