#songs

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#despair #gospel #gospel songs #hope #songs

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#jewish #know #most #sadness #same

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#each #every #five #look #may

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#change #i #never #one thing #really

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fully #old #slave #songs #themselves

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#hits #hotel #hotel room #i #i write

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#before #bloc #came #great #heard

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending. ↗

— Norah Jones

#around #come #different #different angles #ending

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about. ↗

— Norah Jones

#completely #different #i #listener #me