#songs

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. ↗

— David Crosby

#affinity #being #business #father #felt

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#dad #four #i #journals #probably

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#big #big questions #death #feel #i

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#album #get #how #making #might

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.' ↗

— Gotye

#behind #character #close #close relationship #element

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#i #involved #play #songs #still

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#i #informed #interested #me #more

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#decided #give #i #mature #my own

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool. ↗

— Josh Groban

#his #i #liked #officially #own