#songs

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#disease #home #i #long #never

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cared #deeply #i #life #my life

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#down #eventually #far #got #i

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#city #descriptions #everybody #grandmother #identified

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#day #easy #every #every day #exactly

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#broken #glamour #just #life #mistakes

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#around #career #greatest #greatest hits #hits

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#better #lot #person #record #songs

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#decide #just #need #one day #songs

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#i #i think #like #lot #men