Song Quotes

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was completefrom TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!

..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

The morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover, ' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.

Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

I'm a sucker for a sad song.

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

I haven't always been into fitness. But I noticed that when I'd be on stage playing a show, I could hardly make it through the fifth song without having to take a breather.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!