Top 1200 Protest Songs Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.

A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Remixed songs in a way are helping the legendary songs revive their charm and reach out to the newer generations.

The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing such songs.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always songs for us.

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

We've got songs for the women, songs for when you're going through things.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of American folk songs that were probably on the edge of blues. After that was Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry songs. And then I heard Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Big Bill Broonzy on the radio.

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

I am equally capable of doing club songs, slow rock songs and any other kind as well.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

If I completely understood what was going on and I understood these songs, they wouldn't make sense to play live anymore. They're still enigmatic for me. I'm still searching in the songs as they are. That's what's actually been the most fun about playing and touring for me is that there's still a lot of caverns in the songs where you can go and hide out different nights.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

The truest protest is beauty.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

The kind of fans I have are those who allow the songs to be part of their lives; indeed, it's as if the songs aren't mine anymore.

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.