#songs

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#billie holiday #edith #gets #holiday #i

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#bad #come #expect #few #goes

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#am #come #first #get #good

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#again #analytical #began #community #connecting

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#artist #back #best #figured #get

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#feel #i #i can #i feel #me

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#always #any #been #feel #finished

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#another #brief #clusters #composer #four

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. ↗

— Fred Frith

#been #business #gravity #me #more

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#around #career #greatest #greatest hits #hits