Song Quotes

All of my songs are f–ing amazing.

I think some songs are better on vinyl.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

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

I never sing a song the same way twice.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

My favorite songs change every year.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

Please remember me.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it