Song Quotes

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

Families without songs are unhappy families.

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

The only 'anti-fascist' song that makes any sense to me is the Beatles' 'Love Is All You Need', because, quite simply, it's true.