Song Quotes

A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

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

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

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.

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

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

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.

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

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.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

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.

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!

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

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

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.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

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

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.

Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

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)

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

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

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.