Song Quotes

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.