Song Quotes

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings….

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

Songs are more powerful than books.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.