Song Quotes

You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

No one can make me cry Make me laugh Make me smile Or drive me mad like she does

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, "Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person," or "I remember what that day felt like."

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

A country song is a song about life.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

You can cage the singer but not the song.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.