Song Quotes

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.

Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

We only came up with the Kaiser Chiefs about a year and a half ago when we scrapped every song we'd ever done. It was a complete change of direction, songs, outlook and everything.

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

Even with Neptune City, I feel like if you strip down all the arrangements, I feel like each of my songs is always going to be, at its core, either a country song or a blues song.

O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

I wrote many songs about UFOs.

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.