Song Quotes

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

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.

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.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.

The song tells me what to play.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.