#songs

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#front #i #just #mother #piano

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident. ↗

— Natasha Hamilton

#confident #each #gone #got #i

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear. ↗

— Bo Bice

#buying #guy #hear #i #money

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. ↗

— William Brewster

#david #gather #prayer #reading #singing

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. ↗

— Michael Buble

#because #big #biggest #black #come

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#extraordinary #genius #instrumentation #quite #really

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#art #conversation #form #fun #having

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#big #big questions #death #feel #i