Song Quotes
Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.
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.
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.
The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.
Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.
Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.
I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.
I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.
The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.
I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning
When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us
George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.
You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.
There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.
If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?
I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.
