#songs

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. ↗

— Mose Allison

#away #i #i think #ideas #into

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told. ↗

— Tori Amos

#ask #british #even #him #husband

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean? ↗

— Tom Araya

#because #i #i remember #into #just

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#dvd #grease #hear #i #i do

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#because #borrowed #guitar #i #myself

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#bunch #cure #disease #i #just

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#know #love #love songs #me #sad

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#any #go #going #i #i do

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#entire life #fall #get #happen #high

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. ↗

— Harlan Howard

#just #lot #pencil #songs #write