#songs

I don't really like to explain my songs. ↗

— Yanni

#i #like #really #songs

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. ↗

— Yanni

#being #dread #emotion #get #i

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#character #like #me #movie #movies

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#circumstances #depending #extremely #fortunately #fulfilling

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#after #anyone #bedroom #buy #cd

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness and cadavers at the bottom of rivers weren't for radiophiles. There was nothing easygoing about the folk songs I sang. They weren't friendly or ripe with mellowness. They didn't come gently to the shore. I guess you could say they weren't commercial. Not only that, my style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important that just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic. Greil Marcus, the music historian, would some thirty years later call it "the invisible republic." Whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambitions to stir things up. i just thought of popular culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk on it. I didn't know what age of history we were in nor what the truth of it was. Nobody bothered with that. If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs taught me that. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#commercial #culture #dylan #entertainment #folk

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#i #i always #like #poetry #putting

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#dynamics #family #girlfriends #human #i

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#better #feel #get #i #i feel

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#ask #because #composition #different #duke