#songs

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#hear #his #invite #me #morning

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#dream #face #hear #job #mail

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#anyone #beat #catchy #empowering #hear

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#about #art #art form #carry #condition

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. ↗

— Casey Kasem

#getting #interestingly #longer #now #short

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit. ↗

— Casey Kasum

#audience #beat #became #gets #getting

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way. ↗

— Jay Kay

#good #got #guitar #hammer #just

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry. ↗

— Charles Kelley

#asked #been #came #chemistry #dave

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#because #both #collected #cycle #day