Song Quotes

The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.

I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing their own songs.

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.

I love seeing young girls and their parents and grandparents at my concerts all loving the music from Grease when I perform those songs (and yes, I do perform a bunch of them!).

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have, I just write a story about it. Lyric-wise, it's cool to have someone else's input too.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.

It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning. I don't miss nothing and everything is good. Everything I thought of is incorporated in it.

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

There are no rules to writing a song.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.

Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

Which Seat Should I Take?

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.