Song Quotes

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.

There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.

The Eurovision Song Contest is by definition apolitical - unless your song criticises Russia, of course.

I am white, male, Norwegian and fairly resourceful. I am indeed among the least suppressed people on earth. If anyone can sing songs without fear, it should be me.

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

... the song of the world is all of love.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

Have you heard his new song? 'Cause he thinks he's a black man now.

It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and it's rhythmic, maybe I just write a song to that.

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod even though you'd never admit it.

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.

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.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.