#songs

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#again #bad #bands #cover #hearing

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#even #i #myself #now #request

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#around #blackwell #bobby #bobby darin #darin

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#come #done #ever #feel #gift

Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#myself #originally #songs #writing

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect. ↗

— Graham Nash

#any #effect #extremely #i #i am

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. ↗

— Holly Near

#food #language #like #songs #think

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#i #instrumental #recording #songs

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame. ↗

— Randy Newman

#always #anyone #because #blame #complaining

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine? ↗

— Yoko Ono

#mine #never #paul #songs #why