Song Quotes

A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

A singer must be able to sing any kind of song

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old

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.

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

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.

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.

Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

Oh, I would while away the hours, Wanking in the flowers, my heart all full of song, I'd be gliding all the lilies as I waved about my willie, If I only had a schlong.

Life's a song,sing it

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.