#songs

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#facts #good #hard #hard life #i

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers. ↗

— John Edward

#been #david #fan #heart #his

It's amazing what some people read into songs. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#into #people #read #some #some people

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#fun #listen #sad #sad songs #satisfying

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time. ↗

— Zac Efron

#down #go #gonna #good #good songs

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #be different #because #could #different

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bob #bob dylan #dylan #guitar #heard

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. ↗

— Peter Tork

#original #produced #purpose #songs #thinly

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. ↗

— Roger Waters

#either #i #i do #i think #like

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

#best #could #creativity #father #going