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  • As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
  • It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
  • See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.
  • There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
  • I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
  • I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
  • And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
  • Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
  • Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
  • But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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  • Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Burning Spear Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile 'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Brenda Lee 'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Ace Frehley A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bryan Adams A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bobby Vinton All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Taylor Swift All of my songs are autobiographical.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Roland Barthes All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Bon Scott All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
    Bon Scott
     
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bobby Sherman And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Beau Bridges And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Ben Lovett As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Ben Harper As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Beck As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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