#songs

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#anyone #beatles #because #big #fan

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. ↗

— Peter Steele

#area #death #i #love #many

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs. ↗

— Peter Steele

#i write #pop #pop songs #sometimes #songs

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#been #best #come #diaries #going

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#because #hard #i #i do #most

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#hate #i #matter #million #more

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs. ↗

— Sting

#done #i #introduced #me #meditation

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. ↗

— Sting

#body #breathed #case #charts #commodity

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. ↗

— Sting

#emote #failure #go #i #know

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#him #ipod #me #peter #programmed