Song Quotes

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.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

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.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

We were never meant to be baby, we just happened

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

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.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

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.

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high.

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

Don't start drinking before the fifth song.

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.

I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an all-time favorite.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.