Song Quotes

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.

I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on And face life even when it seems all hopes gone Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title You my future my happiness my heart my idol

The song and the land are one.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.