Song Quotes

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

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

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

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

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

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!

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

We all sang the songs of peace

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

I am made of earth, and my song made of words.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

The people in my songs are all me.

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.