#songs

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#death #exception #love #mine #most

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#broke #came #camel #knight #songs

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#acoustic guitar #best #best way #creating #different

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#entire life #fall #get #happen #high

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#done #film #i #legacy #like

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away. ↗

— Janis Ian

#away #contract #day #end #end of the day

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been. ↗

— Scott Ian

#always #band #been #being #best

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#am #anywhere #classic #column #deeply