#songs

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#feminist #hero #i #i write #know

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. ↗

— Fred Frith

#improvise #just #kinds #languages #melodic

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week. ↗

— John Hall

#artists #dc #everywhere #francisco #go

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. ↗

— Randy Travis

#awards #business #having #i #just

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover. ↗

— Shakira

#either #heart #kills #love #lover

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#concerned #entertaining #fell #fun #going

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#before #fraught #laughter #look #our

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#saddest #songs #sweetest #tell #those

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?' ↗

— Blake Shelton

#anybody #ask #back #cranking #home

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #lived #sometimes #songs #started