Song Quotes

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Honest songs aren't written for money.

A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.

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.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

Selena recorded a song I had written and she left my parts in on the middle eight so it ended up being Selena Gomez featuring Pixie Lott.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

Downloading songs is not good.

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.