Song Quotes

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.

The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.