#songs

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#cd #could #couple #everything #get

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

#i #like #love #songs #speak

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine. ↗

— John Mayall

#i #i always #make #pick #players

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#going #hey #i #jackie #jerry

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#depth #i #off #pull #record

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#any #foot #ignorance #illness #just

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. ↗

— Moby

#how #i #made #mixed #really

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#actually #always #anger #angry #around

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. ↗

— Mike Myers

#europe #make #never #songs #weird

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen