#songs

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#been #easy #faucet #hard #just

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#common #had #i #kept #live

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up. ↗

— Wes Borland

#characters #funny #i #made #songs

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. ↗

— David Bowie

#colour #expression #i #i wish #like

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#music #pop #pop music #score #songs

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#beautiful woman #behind #car #dirty #down

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#alone #blessed #careers #established #famous

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#been #i #interested #music #since