#songs

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#fit #group #rather #records #seeing

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. ↗

— Eminem

#drama #life #my life #negativity #really

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #came #childhood #hadn #having

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#explore #honestly #reality #songs #these

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#back #down #drawn #falling #falling in love

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#country #fuel #good #heartbreak #songs

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words! ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#cover #i #i always #i love #love

I started writing songs at 17. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#songs #started #writing