Song Quotes

Sometimes I just get into the zone of the song, but in the outset I feel like I love to cater to people - but not necessarily at the expense of my artistry or anything like that.

I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.

We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.

So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies- two ideas that on good days I believe wholeheartedly and on bad days I denounce as a bunch of bull.

I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.

I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song,” I said. “Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too much to ask? To be somebody's Sharona?

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody but me.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.

I wrote my 1st song at age 11. I haven't stopped since!

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

My fans have been very loyal to me, so I want 'em into the mix every song. I don't want 'em having breaks on stuff I'm trying to push on them.

It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

A song is a poem set to music.

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.