Song Quotes

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

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.

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.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

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.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

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

that voice was a deathless song.

I remember making up songs in my head.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.

Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you.

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you

There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

Im not interested in fad songs.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try for the rest of my life But that wouldn't be half enough

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.