Song Quotes

I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

I don't really like to explain my songs.

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.

The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side...I'll be by your side.

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

There must be some kind of way out of here, ' said the joker to the thief...