#songs

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction. ↗

— Trace Adkins

#conviction #i #like #only #really

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with. ↗

— Trace Adkins

#familiar #get #great #hour #minutes

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. ↗

— Mose Allison

#old #sang #songs #wrote #years

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. ↗

— Marc Almond

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #always #classic #comes

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process. ↗

— Marc Almond

#fascinated #frustrating #i #idea #knew

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#i #interesting #like #looking #make

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. ↗

— Tori Amos

#each #lot #other #songs

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. ↗

— Keren Ann

#atmospheres #fiction #i #mixture #moods

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

#come #distance #enough #jump #need

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#better #choose #date #engaged #first