I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
Bruce Cockburn
Related I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr... BRUCE COCKBURN Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock... JOHN VARVATOS I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Te... ASHLEY MONROE I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and... BEBE REXHA Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs,... ELLIE GOULDING Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens... CHRIS CORNELL When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... KELSEA BALLERINI I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've... ALAN JACKSON There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change live... TYLER FARR The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that ... BLAKE LIVELY When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about real... DAVID CHASE There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. NEIL YOUNG So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really... KATEY SAGAL It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them. ADELE People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&... BILLY CORGAN Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love ... VONDA SHEPARD It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them b... CHRIS CORNELL For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ... MARK KNOPFLER We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. F... DAVID JOHANSEN If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my ... JOHNNY MATHIS When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba... RANDY BACHMAN I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... JOHN LEGEND Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... TOM PETTY My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They ar... CASS ELLIOT I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'... JUSTIN HAYWARD I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... TOM PETTY It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found ... JAMES BLUNT It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human be... ZOOEY DESCHANEL There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about... CHUCK BERRY When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ... DAVE GROHL The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu... TONI TENNILLE I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about ha... DIERKS BENTLEY If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's ... CASS ELLIOT 'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle Hous... CAITLIN ROSE I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a gr... TAYLOR HAWKINS Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs ... BOBBY VINTON When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ... ANI DIFRANCO I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton'... BRUNO MARS None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. WANDA JACKSON I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and ... TINY TIM You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dud... KID ROCK Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a co... TRACY CHAPMAN I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe... BONNIE MCKEE It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a... TANYA TUCKER When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I thi... ZARA LARSSON I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band ... JOAN JETT It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that ... DAVID NAIL One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it ... CHAKA KHAN Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about. DAVID ALLAN COE I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ... J. TILLMAN I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock... KID ROCK All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... LIL UZI VERT I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballg... JEAN LOUISA KELLY I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are chee... PAULA COLE I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're tryi... BILLY PORTER Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and ... SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It... NELL ZINK That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there t... ACE FREHLEY When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro... BONNIE RAITT I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still... CHER LLOYD I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had t... NICHOLSON BAKER When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the fi... GARY CHERONE I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became ... KAREN ELSON It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happ... GREG LAKE If I go back to when I was 18 years old, here was this group writing songs and playing rock 'n' roll... CURTIS REMINGTON Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I... JAMES TAYLOR Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica... THE EDGE I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ... T-PAIN People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be cal... STEVE MARRIOTT I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than ... MAREN MORRIS I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! ... GARRET DILLAHUNT There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the ... CHAD SMITH Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that... LEBRON JAMES There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking th... CHRIS CORNELL This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. JOHN MELLENCAMP They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th... T-PAIN When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd m... TINIE TEMPAH There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and... RHYS IFANS I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here... TOM HARDY When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an im... VALERIE JUNE I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekateri... NINA ARIANDA We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. EDGAR WINTER When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit... BRANDI CARLILE Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my... EMINEM The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles... EVAN RACHEL WOOD I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back... IAN RUSH I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional... SCOTTY MCCREERY
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ... LENNY BRUCE If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. LENNY BRUCE A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got o... LENNY BRUCE If they're booking a PWR BTTM show, they know what they're in for. LIV BRUCE The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So t... BRUCE STERLING If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, wh... BRUCE LIPTON Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... BRUCE LEE Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands... BRUCE DICKINSON I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the ... BRUCE SUTTER People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it m... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public agains... BRUCE JACKSON In America everything's about who's number one today. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a... BRUCE LEE Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awa... BRUCE LEE There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. BRUCE LEE Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. BRUCE LEE Transform it, decorate it, let it become a new Bruce Lee museum, BRUCE LEE The recovery plan does foresee a return to profitability and some upsides for the employees through ... BRUCE HICKS The fear I had was Rita would be the knockout punch to a city that still had its heart and soul. BRUCE HICKS They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come. BRUCE HICKS If we don't have ratification by all three unions at that time, we are left with no choice but to fi... BRUCE HICKS No union has indicated to the company that they have any intention other than to sign the agreement.... BRUCE HICKS A pilots' strike would be fatal to Delta Air Lines. BRUCE HICKS It would be devastating. Delta would not operate. We would not fly and there are no contingency plan... BRUCE HICKS Today's outcome will not disrupt Delta service. Together with our pilots and all of our employees, w... BRUCE HICKS Last month we came precipitously close to filing for bankruptcy. We were fully prepared to file bank... BRUCE HICKS The question is whether American restructures its costs outside of bankruptcy court or through the c... BRUCE HICKS I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to... BRUCE LEE I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe t... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie dow... BRUCE COVILLE