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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished. -- Scott Putesky
Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs. -- Sheena Easton
I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out. -- Cliff Martinez
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. -- Kara DioGuardi
I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too. -- Richard Marx
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. -- Eminem
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible. -- Jason Mraz
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music. -- Yann Tiersen
I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it. -- Juicy J
Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs. -- Rivers Cuomo
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. -- Art Garfunkel
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile. -- Tina Turner
American Top 40' allowed me to be current without my having to force change to keep up with things. The new songs kept us up to date, so every show sounded fresh. -- Casey Kasem
Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it. -- Glenn Tipton
I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal. -- Peter Steele
No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs. -- Jackie DeShannon
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. -- Phil Collins
I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records. -- Ani DiFranco
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real. -- Steve Forbert
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Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them. -- Lesley Gore
I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can. -- Guy Clark
I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. -- Sebastian Bach
If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts. -- Del Shannon
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record. -- Talib Kweli
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album. -- Melissa Joan Hart
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album -- Melissa Joan Hart
Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs. -- Jens Lekman
I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record. -- Conway Twitty
There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading. -- Holly Near
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. -- Mahmoud Darwish
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience. -- Dan Reynolds
Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs. -- Emily Kinney
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished. -- Scott Putesky
When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new. -- Joe Nichols
Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on. -- Jadakiss
You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life. -- Gloria Estefan
So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix. -- Sebastian Bach
Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend. -- Britney Spears
I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown. -- Will Ferrell
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming. -- Christopher Owens
Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it. -- Glenn Hughes
I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired. -- Scout Niblett
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein. -- Tommy Bolin
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs. -- Lights
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy -- N. T. Wright
I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice. -- Johnny Cash
I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again. -- Bob Schneider
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me." -- Zachary Cole Smith
There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder. -- Neil Armstrong
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. -- Francoise Sagan
You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too. -- Bryan Ferry
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music. -- Rokia Traore
Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out. -- Frankie Cosmos
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent. -- Adele
There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive. -- Andrew Bird
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex. -- Courtney Love
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly. -- Brian Eno
I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much. -- Jose Gonzalez
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York. -- Huey Lewis
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea. -- Peter Noone
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it. -- Ben Harper
When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff. -- Fred Durst
One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before. -- Diane Warren
Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind. -- Tim Lambesis
But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished. -- Stephen Malkmus
There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!" -- Travis Morrison
I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ." -- Charles R. Swindoll

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