Song Quotes

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

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.

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

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'.

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

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

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.

We all sang the songs of peace

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

Come on, baby, light my fire. Try to set the night on fire.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

When you put your arms around me, You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through.