#songs

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing. ↗

— Lionel Richie

#cleansing #come #does #facade #find

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#album #backing #done #even #ever

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i can #most #people #recorded #say

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life. ↗

— Diana Ross

#choose #coming #going #heart #i

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#except #had #little #perform #really

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#always #back #car #dishes #down

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other. ↗

— Adam Jones

#each #i #make #mean #other

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#done #hear #how #i #inspiration

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#i #sang #songs #the doors

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs. ↗