Song Quotes

We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it's perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

You're every love song ever written.

I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about.

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.

Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.

I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.

I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.