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I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th... UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki... TOM LEHRER Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just l... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I use songs as weapons. I've written some really good, nasty songs about people I've been involved w... LISA MARIE PRESLEY And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w... PRISCILLA AHN I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that... SHELBY LYNNE I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful s... GEORGE STRAIT I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a re... TAYLOR SWIFT I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only t... CHARLIE WORSHAM Every song I've ever written was while I'm really emotional, maybe happy or maybe sad. Writing songs... SEVERIN BOZUNG I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU We sing a variety of songs many people already know, songs like 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight,' 'Ca... JANET KUSHMEREK Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head. JIM MORRISON I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really star... CAITLIN ROSE I don't really know how to explain it, ... I think that those are just the type of songs that I imag... DAVE GROHL It is one of the many love songs I have written to the city that I lived in. JARVIS DEBERRY I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people. CHARLIE SIMPSON I saw those songs they sang together as love scenes. JAMES MANGOLD Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... AURORA That song is personal only in that it's about home, ... I really wanted to find a song about Georgia... TRISHA YEARWOOD I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. BETH DITTO I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day. BRYAN FERRY I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love... JESSICA STEEN I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. BILLY SHERWOOD the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ... NEIL DIAMOND Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of ... ELLIE GOULDING I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it... GENE WEEN These songs have always been with me. They have helped me through some rough times. When I felt like... AARON NEVILLE Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons... RACHEL PLATTEN Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this g... WATKIN TUDOR JONES 'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it... JOE JONAS I've always written about 'My girlfriend did this and here's how I feel about it,' or 'I had a fight... RYAN KEY I relate to a lot of those songs and he keeps it country. He's almost like a Porter Wagoner. BILLY CURRINGTON I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ... KYLE DUNNIGAN I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are a... GLENN HUGHES I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will ... DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... JOSH TURNER Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I... JIMMY CARL BLACK I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e... MALCOLM WILSON I hope these songs impact peoples lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people c... KIRK WHALUM I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and ... SIA Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs. DARREN CRISS A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is di... MITT ROMNEY One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and so... LEMONY SNICKET Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I... MAXWELL A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six mo... GENE WEEN A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. ACE FREHLEY I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes ... MARY LAMBERT We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u... ANTHONY KIEDIS I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. RAY DAVIES Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that reall... JENNIFER DAMIANO I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri... LUKE COMBS We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u... ANTHONY KIEDIS I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro... ALAN PARSONS My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish. KATE MICUCCI I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who... OLIVIER MESSIAEN I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night. AJ CASE The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. RICK WARREN I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ... J. TILLMAN I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrument... LENNY KRAVITZ Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery o... RUSSELL SMITH With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. KATY PERRY That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. MARC ALMOND I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J... JOHN OATES I hope these songs impact people’s lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people ... KIRK WHALUM I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all ne... BEYONCE KNOWLES In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live per... IAN ANDERSON And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old s... BEAU BRIDGES All those songs reflect all the people that live within me. JANET JACKSON In college, I decided to listen to instrumentalists, because I knew it would help me shape what my p... LALAH HATHAWAY How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums? GARTH BROOKS I started fooling around with the intro to one of the songs. Then another song, and another song... ... BARRY WHITE I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... DAVID BOWIE I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. BARRY MANN I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l... ANDRAE CROUCH I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book ... SOURCE UNKNOWN I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book ... ZELDA FITZGERALD And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child ... WILLIAM BLAKE I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs. BILLY SHERWOOD I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. RAY DAVIES I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many peo... EDIE FALCO It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing ... JOAN BAEZ Everybody was telling me, 'Man, that's your dream job,' when I got the gig with Bob, ... I know I'll... CHARLIE SEXTON I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a h... JAMES ARTHUR I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someon... CHARLES KELLEY If an artist has five or six or seven albums in his or her catalog, a lot of times many retailers ar... JEFF JONES My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the f... SHAKIRA Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about ... BOB GELDOF We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We ... FRED HAMMOND
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't mem... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and l... STEPHEN CHBOSKY He says when you're smoking a cigarette with someone, and you have a lighter, you should light their... STEPHEN CHBOSKY calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear... STEPHEN CHBOSKY They are all my favourites. All of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Every time I see this one particular movie star on a magazine, I can't help but feel terribly sorry ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm trying not to think about it too much because that makes it worse. It's kind of like when you lo... STEPHEN CHBOSKY And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't wort... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That's when Sam grabbed my hand. "I love this song!" She led me to the dance floor. And she started ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess what I’m saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it’s not mine to be familiar a... STEPHEN CHBOSKY They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was th... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Quiero tanto a mi madre... No me importa si es cursi decirlo. Creo que en mi próximo cumpleaños vo... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss o... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that th... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just want you to know that you're very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I do... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Creo que la idea es que cada hombre o mujer tiene que vivir su propia vida y luego decidir si la com... STEPHEN CHBOSKY [...] tenho de ouvir Mary Elizabeth falar sem parar de todas as coisas importantes que ela me mostra... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Y estaba realmente allí. Y eso fue suficiente para hacerme sentir infinito. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Tal vez sea bueno poner las cosas en perspectiva, pero a veces, creo que la única perspectiva es re... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It'... STEPHEN CHBOSKY E quando eu disse a ela que já os tinha lido, ela me fez umas perguntas muito longas, que na verdad... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that m... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wea... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what’s funny is that if they act... STEPHEN CHBOSKY people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work o... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beaut... STEPHEN CHBOSKY we are all supposed to think of reasons to live. STEPHEN CHBOSKY just be yourself STEPHEN CHBOSKY Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. A... STEPHEN CHBOSKY