#songs

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs. ↗

— Patti Smith

#doing #enjoyed #i #i always #songs

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#became #between #comedy #entertainments #hammerstein

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#go #i #just #listen #out

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#back #because #convention #enjoy #generally

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#exactly #fast #get #good #good songs

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#make #record #songs #them #usually

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years. ↗

— George Strait

#album #best #each #go #how

I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down. ↗

— George Strait

#after #ago #antonio #crowd #down

All of my songs are autobiographical. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#songs

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together. ↗

— John Tesh

#album #arrangements #came #churches #eight