Song Quotes

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

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

I'd give away my soul To hold you once again

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

Sing songs that none have sung

I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put it on in a club and just rage! Play it super loud!

It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!